[webkit-help] Forcing image reload in WebKit

[tonikitoo (Antonio Gomes)]

Pls file a bug (bugs.webkit.org), and attach you reduced testcase. You
would be helping to fix the root or your problem.

On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 8:06 AM, MT <mt at theescapers.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I use a WebView that loads a HTML file that uses various resources like
> images, CSS files etc...
>
> Sometimes, the images can change, and I want the WebView to reflect that,
> but I don't want to refresh the entire page, just let a DOMHTMLImageElement
> to reload the image.
>
> At the moment, I'm changing the 'src' attribute of the DOMHTMLImageElement
> to nothing, then changing it back using an NSTimer to the correct URL. This,
> in principle, works, but is unreliable, often crashing.
>
> #1  0x0097d840 in WebCore::CSSParser::parseValue (this=0xbfffe354,
> declaration=0x161d0900, id=1005, string=@0xbfffe484, important=false) at
> /Users/mt/Downloads/WebKit-r53845/WebCore/css/CSSParser.cpp:253
> #2  0x00974d33 in WebCore::CSSMutableStyleDeclaration::setProperty
> (this=0x161d0900, propertyID=1005, value=@0xbfffe484, important=<value
> temporarily unavailable, due to optimizations>, notifyChanged=true) at
> /Users/mt/Downloads/WebKit-r53845/WebCore/css/CSSMutableStyleDeclaration.cpp:534
> #3  0x00a1e4e7 in ~RefPtr [inlined] () at
> /Users/mt/Downloads/WebKit-r53845/WebKitBuild/Release/DerivedSources/WebCore/DOMCSSStyleDeclaration.mm:118
> #4  ~String [inlined] () at text/PlatformString.h:53
> #5  ~String [inlined] () at
> /Users/mt/Downloads/WebKit-r53845/WebCore/platform/text/PlatformString.h:66
> #6  0x00a1e4e7 in -[DOMCSSStyleDeclaration setProperty:value:priority:]
> (self=0xfb76790, _cmd=0x918f7781, propertyName=0x183e88, value=0x13f78e18,
> priority=0x1815c8) at
> /Users/mt/Downloads/WebKit-r53845/WebKitBuild/Release/DerivedSources/WebCore/DOMCSSStyleDeclaration.mm:118
> #7  0x00035b55 in -[WindowController putImageInDivBack:] (self=0x29dd200,
> _cmd=0x152af9, bits=0xf8b5e50) at
> /Volumes/test/WorkingCopy2/WindowController.m:1550
>
> Is there a better, cleaner way to do this?
>
> Thanks for any ideas.
>
> MT
>
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--Antonio Gomes