Image object getWidth() and getHeight() returning -1

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Hello all,

I'm currently unit testing a pretty simple utility that calculates a new image position, given a handful of parameters (including image width and height).

The problem I'm running into is this:
The image width/height don't always load immediately. My only clue so far from searching the web is this:
http://download-llnw.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/awt/Image.html#getWidth%28java.awt.image.ImageObserver%29
which states

Determines the width of the image. If the width is not yet known, this method returns -1 and the specified ImageObserver object is notified later. 

In my JUnit test harness, I have the following code to load my images, using Toolkit:

public static final String TEST_IMG_1_PATH = "images/apple_logo.png";
public static final String TEST_IMG_2_PATH = "images/dude.png";
private Image testImage1, testImage2;
	
@Before
public void setUp() throws Exception {
	testImage1 = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getImage(TEST_IMG_1_PATH);
	testImage2 = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getImage(TEST_IMG_2_PATH);
	
	// check the image size to see if they are fully loaded:
	System.out.println(testImage1.getWidth(null));
	System.out.println(testImage1.getHeight(null));
	System.out.println(testImage2.getWidth(null));
	System.out.println(testImage2.getHeight(null));
}

Because the utility method I'm testing heavily depends on the image size, my tests intermittently fail. When I run this, I typically get -1 for all of the image dimension checks (see the above println()s).

-1
-1
-1
-1

Even with these "-1" results, my test still passes... which means at some point before the test assert() statement executes, the images do become fully loaded.

My question is: What can I do to make sure my image is loaded fully before I do anything with it? Is there any elegant way to handle this? Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks for your time.
-Thok

darrylburke

[http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5446922]

db

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Perfect! Thanks db.

-Thok