"Is there a way I can tell when the requested image is ready to be viewed/rendered?"
an <img> tag has an onload event that you can listen for On Oct 9, 11:08 am, dowhilesomething <dowhilesometh...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm building a slide show using jQuery and I am having sporadic issues > displaying an image before it's fully loaded. > > e.g. Images are stored in a database (binary not the image path) and I > use an image handler to retrieve the images. > > Because the amount of images for each slide show is not predetermined, > I load the first image and next image initially, then each time a > slide (next) is selected I fetch that slide and the next slide. I > don't want to pre-load each image as there could be well over 50-60 > images and some users might only view a handful of slides. Thus > wasting bandwidth and resources. > > Is there a way I can tell when the requested image is ready to be > viewed/rendered? The reason for this is that all images are not fixed > width/height and to place them in the middle of the "stage" I need to > check the height/width so I can add it to the container I am > positioning. > > Any ideas/thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated. > > Regards, David
