UiSimpleList - ImageList?, IconView?

[psycik]

Sub, can a UiSimpleList display a panel of images like the uiList of a baseButtonUiList? (UiList.ViewMode.MODE_ICON)

Or if I did have some dynamic images (in memory, or urls) can I assign them into a list.

There used to be the <DrawImage @filename> tag. but that took filenames did it not?

[psycik]

Wonder if we could make the wImage @filename> tag take a url instead of a filename and display that?

I imagine you must do something similar with YouTube...

[sub]

Sub, can a UiSimpleList display a panel of images like the uiList of a baseButtonUiList? (UiList.ViewMode.MODE_ICON)

The UiSimpleList only has single view mode (MODE_LIST). It can display images in that list though.

Or if I did have some dynamic images (in memory, or urls) can I assign them into a list.

There used to be the <DrawImage @filename> tag. but that took filenames did it not?

Yes, you can do this. Use <DrawImage @filename> where @filename is actually an Image object.

[sub]

Wonder if we could make the wImage @filename> tag take a url instead of a filename and display that?

I imagine you must do something similar with YouTube...

In the YouTube plugin I use the mechanism described above, ie passing in an Image object.

[whurlston]

Does this work with UiList or only UiSimpleList? I've attempted:
item.AddProperty("@thumbnail", "<img src=http://someserver.com/file.jpg>"); and
item.AddProperty("@thumbnail", "http://someserver.com/file.jpg");

along with:
<DrawImage @thumbnail loc="3,55" size="95,50"/> and
<DrawImage filename="@thumbnail" loc="3,55" size="95,50"/>

In all possible combinations and I can't get it to work.

Sorry for being dense but I'm stumped.

[sub]

No, if it's supplied via a property then it expects it to be an Image object (or a call back interface for you to dynamically load the image). ie, you could do something like:
item.AddProperty("@thumbnail", Image.FromFile("http://someserver.com/file.jpg"));

<DrawImage filename="@thumbnail" loc="3,55" size="95,50"/>

[whurlston]

Thanks sub. Image.FromFile() would not take a url but I noticed there was also Image.FromStream() which works for me:

Code:

System.IO.Stream img = new System.Net.WebClient().OpenRead("http://someserver.com/file.jpg");
item.AddProperty("@thumbnail", Image.FromStream(img));

[psycik]

Thanks sub. Image.FromFile() would not take a url but I noticed there was also Image.FromStream() which works for me:

Code:

System.IO.Stream img = new System.Net.WebClient().OpenRead("http://someserver.com/file.jpg");
item.AddProperty("@thumbnail", Image.FromStream(img));

Cool, cos that's what i would have actually been after...rather than downloading all the images to disk...

[psycik]

Did you get this working whurlston? I'm trying now (just made sure the images worked by saving them).

But getting a null reference when the render is called. Can't figure out what it is that is null....

[whurlston]

It worked for me. Image was rendered funny because of my skin.xml settings but that's a different issue (of my own making).

I used UiList though, not UiSimpleList. I have not tried it with that.