Getting images from submodules

pcimino

I'm creating a submodule. I was thinking the code in the submodule would be able to access images locally like this:

{kind: "Image", src: "images/AImage1.png"}

But I find I need to define the path, assuming my project is in /source/lib/MyProj like this:

{kind: "Image", src: "lib/MyProj/images/AImage1.png"}

Is there a cleaner (more generic way) to to this? This path also assumes (maybe that's okay) that an installed submodule path will be the same for all projects?

unwiredben

For our libraries, we use paths based on "$lib/onyx" or similar. We automatically setup $enyo and $lib aliases for use in paths based on those two directories, so I'd suggest you just check out your submodule into $lib and use the $lib/MyProj path for images and the like.

pcimino

Right, the $lib works from the main project, but I'm trying to get the image within the submodule where the submodule code and image both exist.
This works form the main project:

{kind: "Image", src: "$lib/MyProj/images/AImage1.png"}

But it doesn't work within the submodule. Within the submodule I would expect to reference the local path "images/AImage1.png" but it can't find it. If I try to reference the variable, I get a 404 in the console

http://localhost:8888/$lib/MyProj/images/AImage1.png 404 (Not Found) 

So I have to use "lib" instead of "$lib", this just doesn't feel right.

unwiredben

Hmmm, I just was looking for usage like this in onyx, but only found it in one of the samples. I'm surprised it doesn't work though, as all enyo.Control-derived controls, including enyo.Image use the common srcChanged code that calls enyo.path.rewrite().