I felt good about this one, but no luck, Mark
Not that you can test it without the API key, but here's a look at the fairly
simple code I used (note the long wrapped merge line):
on mouseUp
set the text of img "traffic" to empty
set the paintcompression to "PNG"
put GetAPIKey() into tKey
put getLat() into tLat
put getLong() into tLong
put getWidth() into tWidth
put getHeight() into tHeight
put
merge("http://www.mapquestapi.com/traffic/v1/flow?key=[[tKey]]&projection=merc&mapLat=[[tLat]]&mapLng=[[tLong]]&mapHeight=[[tHeight]]&mapWidth=[[tWidth]]&mapScale=108335";)
into tURL
set the width of img "traffic" to tWidth
set the height of img "traffic" to tHeight
set the text of image "traffic" to url tURL
end mouseUp
If I paste the URL that this creates into a web browser it loads fine.
In desperation I even tried "set the filename of image "traffic" to tURL" as
the last line, but it failed as well with the same grey pattern
On Apr 11, 2013, at 20:55 PM, use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com wrote:
> <MacBox@...> writes:
>
>>
>> I'm attempting to get a traffic gif from mapquest via their RESTful API,
> but I am unable to display it;
>> everything results in the image object displaying a grey pattern.
>
> Try
>
> set the paintcompression to "PNG"
>
> before setting the text (or maybe before getting the gif). There's a known
> problem setting the text of an image if the paintcompression is "RLE", and
> it has that symptom (a gray box). It may be what you're running into.
>
> --
> Mark Wieder
> mwie...@ahsoftware.net
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