Show an image from external location

General Discussion
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Hi:

I have a folder with dynamical photos, this location can be browse with “File explorer view”, but I can’t open an image.

I don’t want to use “Image Management” from ignition.

Is it possible open an image?

Thanks for your help.

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You can display an image using the Image control by setting the ‘Image Path’ property to ‘file://’ followed by a valid path to the image file. Remember that this path has to be valid for every client you are trying to access the picture from.

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it works…!!!

thanks AlThePal

this is the Code.

Component Scripting (File Explorer)
event MouseClicked

event.source.parent.getComponent(‘vFoto’).text = event.source.selectedPath

event.source.parent.getComponent(‘vFotoImg’).path = “file:///” + event.source.parent.getComponent(‘vFoto’).text

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Hello. Why I can not display an image? We want display images from an remote cameras.

image_dont_upload.jpg1920×1080 351 KB

P.S. We don’t want display video from camers. Program “motion” save scrinshots on every motions and this scrinshots need to display.
Sorry for english, we are russian.

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@pylkov.s
The path isn't valid because your designer, running on the local Windows system, doesn't know what to do with the /home/ path. You would need to use a multiple operating system compatible path, or another workaround - such as storing and displaying images from the database. See this post for one example.

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For those interested…you can use java libraries to handle this and show a local image in a label.

from javax.imageio import ImageIO
from java.io import File
from javax.swing import ImageIcon

filepath = r"C:\Users\cmaynes\Desktop\save_white_24.png"
ofile = File(filepath)
oimage = ImageIO.read(ofile)
lbl_comp = event.source.parent.getComponent('Label 1')
lbl_comp.setIcon(ImageIcon(oimage))