preload() hangs on loadImage

[slowizzm]

preload() hangs when trying to loadImage(), never loads.

Google Chrome | 68.0.3440.106 (Official Build) (64-bit) (cohort: Stable)
Revision | 1c32c539ce0065a41cb79da7bfcd2c71af1afe62-refs/branch-heads/3440@{#794}
OS | Windows

[catarak]

i'm not able to reproduce this! the following sketch works for me: https://editor.p5js.org/cassie/sketches/SJlIk0WUPX

can you add a link to your sketch? thanks!

[slowizzm]

Weird, it is working for me now as well, your sketch and mine.

No longer an issue.

thanks

[mberndtgen]

Sorry for re-opening this, but I was able to reproduce this. In preload(), I'm loading 15 images into an array like so:

  for (var i = 0; i < numOfImages; i++) {
    imgs[i] = loadImage("images/" + i + "_image.png");
  }

and draw wasn't able to show them. Only after modifying my code and 'forcing' them to display (like so:

function draw() {
  image(imgs[0], 0, 0);
}

, doing this for each picture, one by one, made me eventually display them as intended. After this procedure my original code worked as expected. Felt a bit like filling a cache. Definitely weird and maybe worth a look.

[catarak]

@mberndtgen can you post a link to your sketch? i'm not quite sure i get what the different cases are.

this could have to do with programmatically-generated image names, they're loaded in a different way than if they're a simple string (i.e. loadImage("images/0_image.png"); vs your for loop).

[mberndtgen]

It's here: https://editor.p5js.org/mberndtgen/sketches/B12RmDyvX

[mberndtgen]

Strange, huh? :-) This code worked without problems in the alpha version of the editor.

[catarak]

@mberndtgen i was playing with your sketch and i couldn't figure out what was wrong because of all of the other stuff going on in that project (which is really cool btw!). would you mind making an example that only shows the thing that appears to not be working?

[mberndtgen]

Yeah, sure! (And thanks! This is my homework for a course on Kadenze.) Here is the essence of what it takes (at least for me) to reproduce the error:
https://editor.p5js.org/mberndtgen/sketches/ByBKxP2vQ

It was even a bit stranger than expected: I've cloned this project from the original one (via File > Duplicate) and modified it. I've changed the png's in the images folder, too (but they still have the names of the original project: 0_image.png, 1_image.png etc.) When I run this code then imgs[0] is displayed as an image of my original project, while the same image that was loaded directly (not into an array) is displayed correctly. See here:

Background: image from array, green thingy: correct image. Both were loaded as 0_image.png. This is different from my first experience when no image of the array was displayed at all, but I guess this could have the same cause.

[slowizzm]

preload() loadImage() array is working for me ....

https://editor.p5js.org/slow_izzm/sketches/BJnX6QJ_X

[catarak]

@mberndtgen this is what I see:

so I think for me it's... working? I'm feeling very confused about what exactly the issue you're seeing is. I am also using Chrome.

[mberndtgen]

Oh weirdness! Now it's working on my side, too! Can't reproduce the error any longer. You better close this issue until this changes again. :-) Thanks a lot for your effort, though, I really appreciate!
(Adventure's almost finished, btw.)

[catarak]

maybe it's a caching thing, or a network connection thing. i'll close this for now!