image-preloader

Detect if objects are loaded [Javascript]

I was wondering, is there a way to detect if a certain image / div is loaded? For example when i am loading two heavy images and showing a loading sign at the two places the images will later occupy, is there a way to already display the first image when it's loaded while still loading the second one? ...

jQuery image preload/cache halting browser

In short, I have a very large photo gallery and I'm trying to cache as many of the thumbnail images as I can when the first page loads. There could be 1000+ thumbnails. First question -- is it stupid to try to preload/cache that many? Second question -- when the preload() function fires, the entire browser stops responding for a minut...

Why does this attempt at preloading images with jQuery not work?

Current I have this code: var imgCount = 36; var container = $('#3D-spin'); var loaded = 0; function onLoad() { alert(loaded); loaded++; if(loaded >= imgCount) { alert('yay'); } } for(var i = imgCount-1; i >= 0; i--) { container.prepend( $('<img>') .one('load', onLoad) .a...

preload images using jQuery

I got this snippet of code following a tutorial comment (by James) on Nettuts and I would like to implement it. The tutorial method of preloading images is long winded but I liked James' shortened version of this, however, I have tried implementing this and I am not getting it right. It seems I would need to set up my array first, the ...

how to preload large size image?

i have certain links, on mouse over of those links I am changing <div> background image jQuery I have used is- function imgchange() { $('.smenu li').mouseover( function(){ var src = $(this).find('a').attr('href'); $('.hbg').css('background-image', 'url(' + src + ')'); $(this).find('hbg').attr('title...

Getting size of javascript preloaded image

Hi I'm trying to preload a number of images generated on the server to a small website. The preloading is done using setWindowTimeout and uses an Image object, sets the onload callback and then applies the new request uri. For some requests, the server may have to signal that the image is 'unchanged' and I'm doing it by sending done a...

Don't know how to make script with preloaded images

Can someone look over this and tell me what I have to do to get the images to show up? <head> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> <!-- //Begin function changeImage(filename) { mainimage.src = filename; } // End --> </script> </head> <body> <p> <a href="javascript:changeImage('image-viewer/image1.jpg')">I...

Preloading images using jQuery

Hi everyone, I know this is a hot topic and I know there have been previous questions with identical titles, but I tried everything and something's just not working right. For some reason, my Firefox will not preload the images. The images DO preload (as they should) in IE7/8 and Chrome. But not in Firefox. EDIT: I've created a new F...

flex 4.1 s:List: how can i force the list to load all the items, not only the visible items ?

Hello. I'm creating a facebook application in flex. I'm actually working on the friends component that shows your friends who are using the application. now, each friend has a profile image. I created the component using a s:List element. In the Skin Class of the element i configured the requestedColumnCount to 3, which means it shows...

How to load images intelligently using CSS/jQuery?

I have a thumbs div (i'm only showing four thumbs for the sake of brevity): <div id="thumbs"> <img src="graphics/thumbs/01.jpg" width="190" height="190" class="thumb objects" id="project01" /> <img src="graphics/thumbs/08.jpg" width="190" height="190" class="thumb web" id="project08" /> <img src="graphics/thumbs/14.jpg" width="190" hei...

Will image preloading stall additional server requests?

I can't test this live at the moment, so I'm asking: If this script is busy loading images from an array (say, a few MB worth), and the user happens to perform some behavior that requires one of the images that has not yet loaded, will its loading be delayed? Or can the browser send out parallel requests? function preloadImg() { var a...

Image preloading with array

Hi, I am using the following code to preload images in an image gallery: $(window).bind('load', function(){ var imageNumber = $(".image").attr("alt"); var imageUp = parseInt(imageNumber) + 1 var imageUp2 = parseInt(imageNumber) + 2 var imageDown = parseInt(imageNumber) - 1 var preload = [ 'image' + imageUp + '.jpg', 'image...

Trying to find a jQuery image preloader

Hi, I am trying to find a working jQuery image preloader that plays well with the Marcofolio slideshow (here http://www.marcofolio.net/webdesign/advanced_jquery_background_image_slideshow.html). The same slideshow is being used on the Philadelphia website here: http://www.visitphilly.com/ - but when I use my web developer tools to view...

preload an array of images with jquery

Hi all. I am using jQuery to build an array of images from a php array. I want to loop through these images, preloading them while displaying a little loading gif until all of the images are loaded. At the moment, I have tried many methods of doing so and the rest of the page always seems to carry on loading and so the images are bein...