Even with images residing in the same directory (with relative OR absolute URLs)
loadImage() is not able to load images. (When running as applet).

I thought I remembered this as a feature. Was I dreaming?
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PImage b;

void setup() {
size(500,500);
b = loadMyImage("http://wheretheAppletresides.com/viewtest/test.jpg");
}
void draw() {
image(b, 0, 0);
}
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---error:
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)

just tested this with an image and it works fine for me. perhaps the image isn't properly
formatted in some way?

confirmed to work fine on macosx, but causes the bug on windows only (yay! cross-platform
java!) not sure what linux does with it yet.

I've been playing around with it... it seems like it might have something to do with
JPEG compression. I have it working with some images and not others. (Its
surprisingly inconsistent,.. if I figure out more I'll let you know). Incedentally I'm
hoping to try to put together either a JPEG save frame, or a TIF loader. (processing
really needs to be able to load its own images). If I can do it I suspect it will be
sloppy, but I'll try to share. Cheers.

So it seems that it's getting the size of -1 from the AWT Image in the
PImage constructor. I played around with it a bit and it seems that even
after waitForAll() doesnt fail out, the size of the Image is -1,-1 when it
gets passed to the PImage, hence the error. I cant figure out if it just
doesnt load it or if needs to wait for it to initialize its size correctly.

right, the -1 is just a symptom that the image didn't load. just a bit frustrating since it doesn't
seem to be flagging any sort of errors, though perhaps that's getting sent to the mediatracker
and it just needs to be queried.

I think it's something with the stream in loadBytes.. if I load it with
getImage(URL url), it works no problem.

hm, so i wonder if loadBytes() could actually be somehow broken for URLs (this would be more
positive than there just being a bug in sun's Toolkit function on windows that creates an image
from a byte array, because we'd have to write code to get around it).

this may be related to bug #305.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 305 ***