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Weird picture stuff

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#1

Bob,

Strange things happened this morning when I was posting a photo in Jerry’s Stirling Single thread (http://www.largescalecentral.com/forums/topic/18219/the-bachmann-quot-emily-quot-s/view/page/3)

The photo was wider than 800 px, so I posted it and tried to edit it using HTML. There was no '< img" tag (deliberately spaced) just the [ img ] - in HTML view ?!?!

Then I deleted the original pic and uploaded a new one with the same name at 800 px wide. It still posted as wider (somehow it found the old copy of the pic.)

I then deleted it again and renamed it on my computer, and uploaded it again. When I posted it the original pic is still there and the new one under it.

What happened ?

#2

Probably still using the old pic from your cache…

I just checked it and the picture looks fine to me.

#3

There are two pics in the post that are different freight shed files. Just delete one from the post and your shed. The weird problem was probably, as Ken said, your cache. Happens to me all the time when updating websites.

#4

Jon Radder said:

There are two pics in the post that are different freight shed files. Just delete one from the post and your shed. The weird problem was probably, as Ken said, your cache. Happens to me all the time when updating websites.

You guys are missing the weird bit - HTML mode should give me a proper < img tag that I can add the width=" to so it resizes. (See Jason’s New Offerings thread.) It gave me [ img ] tags instead, which don’t have a width to specify.

And the first pic is already deleted from my Freight shed. It shouldn’t be in a cache or visible at all. Clearly there is a cache - when I replaced it with a new file only 800 px wide, the old one still showed up. But now I changed the name, the old one is deleted and should not be in a cache.

#5

Did you clear the History on your computer?

#6

Tony Walsham said:

Did you clear the History on your computer?

Tony,
No I didn’t, and I don’t think that can have anything to do with it (though you never know . .) The cache is somewhere in Bob’s forum code.

#7

Pete,

What do I know?
I am the last person to suggest a technical solution to a computer problem.

However, some times when I am working on my website (only ever with Firefox) and a pic has been replaced but has the same URL, the old pic still shows up on my computer. The cure my webmaster gave me was to clear the history and then the new pic would display on my computer.

Perhaps that is what is happening in your case.

#8

That happens often with software and websites when replacing an image with the same file name. MS FrontPage did it and was extremely annoying. It can be avoided in software development code by checking file creation date when a file with the same name is being replaced to determine if it is the same file or not so only files the same will cache.
Removing history will probably fix it. It depends on where the problem is occurring.
Just rename it and all will work.

Andrew

#9

Hey Pete - Right; I glossed over that part misunderstanding what you meant about the tags. So here is a test for myself to see what gives. First is an image placed with teh INSERT command in the editor…

Next is a different picture, placed in this post using the [ img ] tags…

Now I will come back and edit this post, look at HTML mode and see if there is any difference in the generated code.

Be Back Soon

#10

OK - As I suspected; IF you use the Insert Image box to place the photo and then look at the post in HTML mode you see normal html tags like

OH CRAP - I tried to put the html style tag in this reply and the editor truncated my post at that point. I’m not going to re-type the whole thing tonight to explain - but all you really need to know is that if you want html style tags that you can later edit you must use the Insert Image box rather than the [ img [ tags.