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Insert image from Google drive into sheet

I'm trying to insert image into sheet. However, it keeps return Error retrieving image from URL or bad URL. The webContentLink method works normally. It return a link with &export=download. I even tried to truncate that and insert image but still get the same error. Many of the image files have the public-anyone can see sharing setting.
I have tried many ways to insert image but none is working. Some answers about this were about 3-4 years ago so I just have to ask again to make sure. I have tried function IMAGE in sheet but it often load the image very slowly (often 10s of minutes after entering the function). I also tried blob method but to no avail. It returns the strange error that I don't know how to handle a server error occurred. The function works normally for other files, working with files in Google Drive is very very difficult. I am at my wit's end, please help.
function insertImg()
{
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
var sheet = ss.getSheets()[0];
var currentCell = sheet.getActiveCell();
var thisFileId = SpreadsheetApp.getActive().getId();
var thisFile = DriveApp.getFileById(thisFileId);
var folder = thisFile.getParents().next();
var files = folder.getFiles();
var i =0;
while (files.hasNext())
{
var file = files.next();
if (file.getMimeType()== 'image/jpeg')
{
i++;
var img = Drive.Files.get(file.getId()).webContentLink;
sheet.insertImage(img, 1, i);
}
}
}

Does keeping an image in memory prevent the cache of that image from expiring?

The standard way to preload Image files in JavaScript seems to be something like this:
var images_to_load = ['img1.png', 'img2.png', 'img3.png'];
for(var i=0; i<images_to_load.length; i++){
var img = new Image();
img.src = images_to_load[i];
}
This loads the image into the cache by getting the browser to request the image file. However, there's no guarantee that the image file sticks around in the cache, as the cache expiration time is dependent on server settings and browser settings.
Is an image guaranteed to remain in the cache until the page is closed if you keep the Image object in memory? Here's a basic example:
var images_to_load = ['img1.png', 'img2.png', 'img3.png'];
var loaded_images = [];
for(var i=0; i<images_to_load.length; i++){
var img = new Image();
img.src = images_to_load[i];
loaded_images.push(img);
}

No, there is not any guarantee.
What you have in the JavaScript memory is completely different than what the browser has in the cache. A possible solution is to create new instance of your images before the cache expiration time. If you repeat this progress, you can make sure your images are always available in the cache.

You can cache and even preload images using service workers
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Service_Worker_API/Using_Service_Workers
there is sample code
https://github.com/mdn/sw-test/
And learn more about offline-first here: http://offlinefirst.org/

Why do my canvases only load on refresh?

I have a web page which contains an iframe, the iframe contains a table which contains up to 1,000 canvas elements. The canvas elements are filled by a function defined in the iframe, which is called by the parent page. The function iterates and fills each canvas with a base64 data URI contained in a hidden span in the parent page. I have read a few other Stackoverflow posts regarding similar issues but I have already tried the most commonly used suggestion (using onload) and that does not seem to work. I am fairly fresh to html/javascript so I doubt I am doing things the best way. I was hoping someone could guide me on how to assure that all the canvas elements are successfully filled with the base64 data on the first load so I don't need to refresh multiple times to get me thumbnails? Here is some code, it is VERY trimmed up code from my html page. If I were to paste the entire page, it might be a bit too much too handle sensibly. Here is what I believe to be the essential actors.
My onload call to my function which fills the canvases, this is on the main page which contains the iframe -
<body onload="document.getElementById('framePage').contentWindow.fillCans();">
Here is the fillCans() function which is contained within the framePage iframe (I probably should move this to the main html page, but so far this is how the script has... evolved haha). pgCnt element contains the "counter" numbers if you will. It will defines how many elements to iterate through. When var c is assigned, the "can"+i elements are the canvases. When var imgSrc is assigned, the "span"+i elements are the hidden span elements on the parent page which contain the base 64 data URIs -
function fillCans() {
var cnt = document.getElementById("pgCnt").innerHTML;
var cnt = cnt.split("-");
var cnt1 = cnt[0];
var cnt2 = cnt[1];
for (var i=cnt1; i <= cnt2; i++) {
var targ = "span"+i
var c = document.getElementById("can"+i);
var ctx = c.getContext("2d");
ctx.fillStyle="#FFFFFF";
ctx.fillRect(0,0,128,128);
var image = new Image();
var imgSrc = parent.document.getElementById("span"+i).innerHTML;
imgSrc = imgSrc.split("*");
image.src = imgSrc[0];
ctx.drawImage(image,0,0);
}
Like I said, this will load fine, firebug reports no errors, however all the canvases are white with no thumbnails. When I hit refresh a few times they all finally load. I've read that the image data is asynchronously loaded but I am not certain to as what that means, I assume it means it doesn't play by the rules that onload plays by? Anyways as usual, thanks for all the help stackoverflow community. It will be great to know how to get these thumbnails to load successfully on the first page load.
After #Sebastian's great suggestions I was able to get my JavaScript functioning as it should. I am pasting in the new function. As it works now, in case anyone ever comes across a similar issue. I had to implement an onload call to a function which drew the image, and then utilize in IIFE for loop to insure that each thumbnail was drawn with correctly iterated data.
function fillCans() {
var cnt = document.getElementById("pgCnt").innerHTML;
var cnt = cnt.split("-");
var cnt1 = cnt[0];
var cnt2 = cnt[1];
for (var i=cnt1; i <= cnt2; i++) {
(function(iterable){
var c = document.getElementById("can"+iterable);
var ctx = c.getContext("2d");
ctx.fillStyle="#FFFFFF";
ctx.fillRect(0,0,128,128);
var image = new Image();
var imgSrc = parent.document.getElementById("span"+iterable).innerHTML;
imgSrc = imgSrc.split("*");
image.onload = function() {
ctx.drawImage(image, 0, 0);
};
image.src = imgSrc[0];
})(i);
}
}

You are right, the problem is that the image has to be loaded first, before you can draw it.
In your case image is not loaded at the time you call
ctx.drawImage(image,0,0);
However later on the browser has cached the image URL and in between the calls to the assignment of the source property and the drawImage call the browser has already retrieved the image from the cache.
To make it work in any case, you need to wait for the image to load:
image.onload = function() {
ctx.drawImage(image, 0, 0);
};
image.src = imgSrc[0];
Be sure to first register the callback and then set the src.
See HTML Canvas DrawImage Tutorial

Display multiple pdf on single web page

I am building a web page in which I used pdf.js project of Mozilla and its working perfectly.
But I have a need to show multiple pdf on single page, which are to be placed in different divisions.
Someone supposed me to use iframes but I need to show them in div only or i can use buttons by which i can switch to other pdfs on same page
The way of switching to other pdf with button is perfect solution and it can be done by AJAX but I don't know how to implement this functionality with AJAX. Does any one can provide me way to implement it ?
Mozilla developers have implemented following code to change the pdf in viewer when user select a pdf file from choose file tool box:
window.addEventListener('change', function webViewerChange(evt) {
var files = evt.target.files;
if (!files || files.length == 0)
return;
// Read the local file into a Uint8Array.
var fileReader = new FileReader();
fileReader.onload = function webViewerChangeFileReaderOnload(evt) {
var data = evt.target.result;
var buffer = new ArrayBuffer(data.length);
var uint8Array = new Uint8Array(buffer);
for (var i = 0; i < data.length; i++)
uint8Array[i] = data.charCodeAt(i);
PDFView.load(uint8Array);
};
But i want to work this code on the button click event and it should load the pre-specified pfd on viewer.

Load and display multiple animated gifs at the same time (synchronised) with Javascript

I'm by no means any kind of coder or programmer, but I've been trying to load and display some gifs so that they all animate from the beginning at the same time. In other words, I need them to be synchronised.
I've done a lot of Googling and what I've come up with seems to work with Chrome/Safari and Firefox, but as usual, Internet Explorer refuses to cooperate.
My current code is this:
var images = ["thephoto1", "thephoto2", "thephoto3", "thephoto4", "thephoto5"];
function initImages() {
for (var i = 0; i < images.length; i++) {
imageId = images[i];
image = document.getElementById(imageId);
image.style.visibility = "visible";
}
}
function preloadImages(urls) {
var img = new Array();
for (var i = 0; i < urls.length; i++) {
img[img.length] = new Image();
img[img.length - 1].src = urls[i];
}
}
window.onload = function() {
var img = new Array(
"http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg391/scaled.php?server=391&filename=countdown.gif&res=medium",
"http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/funny-pictures-gif-cat-love.gif",
"http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g9/cpchick/Random%20Gifs/therock.gif",
"http://www.mobileapples.com/Assets/Content/Screensavers/dc_1owy86mw.gif",
"http://www.pptbackgrounds.fsnet.co.uk/images/powerpoint-countdown-u1.GIF"
);
preloadImages(img);
initImages();
}
With some added CSS:
.preload
{
visibility: hidden;
}
It's basically this and this script combined.
You can view a live example here: http://jsfiddle.net/AN9uB/
Some possible methods or potentially helpful posts:
Restart an animated GIF from JavaScript without reloading the image.
Javascript to only display animated gif when loaded.
However from reading the comments on those links, I'm not entirely sure they're possible.
The test gifs I'm using are just random images I found and a small forewarning, some of the images are fairly large since I needed to test a variety gifs ranging in size and duration. All of the gifs loop except for the first countdown image which only plays once.
On some occasions the first countdown image doesn't play at all (it's stuck on 10) when viewing the page with Firefox 3.6.18, but otherwise the rest of the gifs all load and display at the same time.
The main problem is that I cannot think of a way to make this work with Internet Explorer. I thought perhaps to preload the images and then refresh the page via javascript. It's an ugly solution, but I think it would work.
Flash is the obvious tool to be doing this kind of thing in, but the friend who I'm making this for only uses gifs.
Is there a more elegant solution that works across all major browsers? Also ideally, to only use Javascript, not JQuery.
Thanks for any help.

Well, you're not really preloading the images, because you're only calling the preloadImages function after the pages has loaded, i.e. after the actual IMG tags in the html have been read, and the browser's probably started downloading them. The last part may depend on the visibility:hidden style, but I'm not sure - at least I don't expect all browsers to agree on what to do in that case.
Also, you have the URLs defined both in the JavaScript, and in the HTML. That's both redundant and also harder to change later.
I must admit I have no idea if this will work right everywhere, but you might try
only having the image URLs in JavaScript - you can then add then
into the HTML, when they're ready
using the onload event handler
on the JS Image objects to assert that an image has been loaded.
Once they've all loaded, add them to the document (i.e. the page).
Now, I don't know when a given browser starts the animation-clock on a gif. If it starts the moment the gif has been loaded, there's not much you can do, since the gif's won't load at the same time. If, however, they first start animating when they're placed in the document (which seems probable, but never trust a browser), then there's a chance.
// This function will add an array of images to div#images
function showImages(images) {
var container = document.getElementById("images"); // get the #images div
for( var i = 0, l = images.length ; i < l ; i++ ) {
var img = document.createElement('IMG'); // create the IMG tag
img.src = images[i].src; // set the src - the image should be preloaded when this happens
container.appendChild(img); // add the IMG tag to the #images div
}
}
// This one will create JS Image objects from an array of URLs
function loadImages(urls) {
var remaining = urls.length; // the images still waiting to be fetched
var images = []; // empty array to hold the created Image objects
// this function will be called for Image object that is loaded
var onloadHandler = function() {
remaining--; // decrement the number of remaining images
if( remaining < 1 ) {
showImages(images); // if all images have loaded, add them to the page
}
};
// create an Image object for each URL
for( var i = 0, l = urls.length ; i < l ; i++ ) {
var img = new Image();
img.onload = onloadHandler; // set the onload-handler before setting the src
img.src = urls[i];
images.push(img); // add the Image object to the images array
}
}
window.onload = function() {
var urls = [
"http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg391/scaled.php?server=391&filename=countdown.gif&res=medium",
"http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/funny-pictures-gif-cat-love.gif",
"http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g9/cpchick/Random%20Gifs/therock.gif",
"http://www.mobileapples.com/Assets/Content/Screensavers/dc_1owy86mw.gif",
"http://www.pptbackgrounds.fsnet.co.uk/images/powerpoint-countdown-u1.GIF"
];
loadImages(urls);
};
Here's a jsfiddle of it all: http://jsfiddle.net/Frqys/2/
Again, I have no idea if this'll actually work in every browser. It seems ok in Safari, Chrome and Firefox (all on Mac OS), but it's impossible to be sure. I'd advise you to copy a gif file a number of times, and give each file a different name, so it'll have a unique URL. That should prevent it from caching, and keep its animation clock separate. Then try loading all those GIFs instead of a bunch of different ones, and see if they stay in sync.