I feel like this is a really basic question, but I've spent way too long trying to straighten it out. Does anyone know how to get an applet (outside of the editor) to load an image from an absolute URL? (With the applet residing on the same server... and even in the same directory). I thought I remembered doing this but I cant find an example now and I've tried several servers and several files.


This basic test:

PImage b;

void setup() {
 size(500,500);
 b = loadImage("http://mysite.com/stuff/viewtest/test.jpg");
  image(b, 0, 0);
}

keeps spitting out:
Error while running applet.
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Width (-1) and height (-1) cannot be <= 0

at java.awt.image.DirectColorModel.createCompatibleWritableRaster(Unknown Source)

at java.awt.image.BufferedImage.<init>(Unknown Source)

at processing.core.PGraphics2$ImageCache.<init>(PGraphics2.java:558)

at processing.core.PGraphics2.imageImpl(PGraphics2.java:520)

at processing.core.PGraphics.image(PGraphics.java:1676)

at processing.core.PApplet.image(PApplet.java:6173)

at sketch_060124a.draw(sketch_060124a.java:10)

at processing.core.PApplet.display(PApplet.java:1229)

at processing.core.PGraphics.requestDisplay(PGraphics.java:520)

at processing.core.PApplet.run(PApplet.java:1046)

at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)


Is this a feature that I dreampt up? Possibly a bug in the last few distribs (I tried several).

Maybe the loadImage mediaTracker is not executing properly, or the applet is looking for the URL in the jar? HELP!!!

i can second that, seems to not be working for me.

its basically just loadImage() from a url that doesnt work. Even in the simplest testcase, it works when run on the desktop but as an applet, it seems to not work. I made a barebones example. I tried doing it directly with an awt Image as well and it still didnt work so im guessing its something to do with that:

http://www.ivansafrin.com/processing/doesntwork/

PImage anImage;
void setup()
{
 size(200, 200);
 stroke(255);  
 anImage = loadImage("http://www.ivansafrin.com/marco.jpg");
}
void draw()
{
 background(0);
 image(anImage, 0,0);
}