this is simple and it should work

[adventuresofgreg]

Hey: I cannot figure out why this isn't working, as I work with images all of the time. I'm using LC v 5.5.1 for performance reasons. I'm just setting the filename of an imported image to a URL. It works if the URL is a local file, but when it's a http:// image, all I get is a GREY box. I've done this millions of times both in this version and new versions of LC and this is driving me crazy..

put "http://www.time-machine.com/pbaytargets ... 244940.jpg" into SourceFile
set the filename of image "imageA" to SourceFile

note: I removed "http:" because LC 5 doesn't work with secure URL's, but confirmed that the http: does load up into a browser.

Any ideas?

[FourthWorld]

Works here in 9.6.10.

If staying with such an old version for performance reasons, maybe we can more easily optimize those core routines than to find workarounds for nearly two decades of bug fixes.