Drawimage in skins

[McBainUK]

This is what I have in my skin file on a music player plugin I'm working on:

<!-- image used for album art box-->
<CompositeImage name="AlbumArt" size="150,150">
[INDENT]<DrawRoundedRect loc="4,5" size="129,120" radius="7" borderWidth="4" borderColor="White" fillColor="Black"/>[/INDENT]
[INDENT]<DrawImage filename="@AlbumArtPath" loc="8,10" size="122,112"/>
[/INDENT]</CompositeImage>

My problem is that this excepts the first filename, but dosnt allo anymore. On other words it displays the first image given no matter how many times you call it with different paths :mad:

I'm 99% my code is supplying the correct paths and the skin is ignoring it.
Is there anyone who can comment on this?

[sub]

When you use an @ varible with in the CompositeImage's DrawImage tag, this expects an Image object to be passed as a parameter. Its not a filename in this case.

[McBainUK]

Re-reading the code it is actualy passing an image :o

Are the images cached in any way?

[sub]

no

[McBainUK]

Hmm I'm stumped then :confused:

[McBainUK]

With this the album art dosnt change
[INDENT]args["@AlbumArt"] = getAlbumImage(trackPathNowIn);

Image tempImage = skinHelper.getNamedImage("AlbumArtImage" , args);
g.DrawImage(tempImage, albumArtLocation.StartX, albumArtLocation.StartY);[/INDENT]
The album art changes with this (but I would like to use the skin)
[INDENT]Image tempImage = getAlbumImage(trackPathNowIn);
g.DrawImage(tempImage, albumArtLocation.StartX, albumArtLocation.StartY);[/INDENT]

How does skinHelper.getNamedImage() work?

[McBainUK]

replacing skinHelper.getNamedImage with skinHelper.getNamedImageNonCached solves it

Seems like there is was bit of caching going on. Thanks for your help sub

[sub]

Thats actually not the caching I thought you were asking about. I assumed you were already using skinHelper.getNamedImageNonCached().

[McBainUK]

No problem sub.

In future do not assume anything with me and my coding :p lol