var thumb = Titanium.App.Properties.getString('theImage');
Titanium.API.info('READING IT IN: '+thumb); // this outputs correctly 
var thumbView = Titanium.UI.createImageView({
    url:thumb
});
view.add(thumbView);

[ERROR] Failed to load image: (null), Error: Error Domain=ASIHTTPRequestErrorDomain Code=5 UserInfo=0x503f2a0 "Unable to create request (bad url?)"

5 Answers

• Accepted Answer

  Try this:

  var thumb = Ti.App.Properties.getString('theImage');
  var file = Ti.Filesystem.getFile(thumb);
  var thumbView = Ti.UI.createImageView({
      image:file
  });
  view.add(thumbView);
  

  See, eg, image_view_file.js.

• First off, let me just say that I appreciate your time. I appreciate the code snippet and the link. Unfortunately this didn't work for me:

  var thumb = Ti.App.Properties.getString('theImage');
  var file = Ti.Filesystem.getFile(Titanium.Filesystem.resourcesDirectory,thumb);
  var thumbnailView = Titanium.UI.createImageView({
      url:file
  });
  view.add(thumbnailView);
  

  Gives me this:

  [ERROR] Failed to load image: (null), Error: Error Domain=ASIHTTPRequestErrorDomain Code=5 UserInfo=0x503b2b0 "Unable to create request (bad url?)"
  

• I used the image property in my code, not the url property - did you try that too?

  You also don't need to pass Titanium.Filesystem.resourcesDirectory as a parameter to getFile if you're storing the full path. The getFile function just concatenates its parameters.

• Thanks again for checking back. Yes, sir. Sorry about that - I tried the url version last then copied and pasted. I used the image version to no avail.

  I saw another version of this example floating around and it used a different Filesystem location, and I tried each, but that didn't work either.
  Titanium.Filesystem.resourcesDirectory vs. Titanium.Filesystem.applicationDataDirectory

  Not entirely sure what the differences are, but I tried them anyway. Any ideas?

• I also tried fireEvent to pass the value of the event.media to the imageView, but that didn't work either. I'm kind of at my wits end here. Anybody?