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From: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Displaying images does not always work - why not?
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 02:54:11 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20110607T044949-866@post.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: loom.20110607T001150-502@post.gmane.org

Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos <at> hp.com> writes:


> ...
> I tried to reduce it to more elemental components, by saving the image part of
> the cached file into a different file, called foo.gif. ...
> But when I try
> 
> (setq i (create-image "foo.png"))
> (insert-image i)
> 
> I get the dreaded empty box (and the same thing with foo.gif). ...

Well, this last part is a bust: apparently, create-image needs an absolute
pathname - that's why the insert-image doesn't work (and *Messages* makes it
obvious). But that still doesn't explain the original problem:
org-google-weather uses a :data spec for the image, not a :file spec.

Nick








  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-07  2:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-06 22:53 Displaying images does not always work - why not? Nick Dokos
2011-06-07  2:54 ` Nick Dokos [this message]
2011-06-07  4:39 ` Nick Dokos

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