Can you set an image at run time? Does it really work?

Question

I have read that others have been able to set an image at run time, but I cannot seem to get it to work (the image I set does not load).
What I do is have a page, call it page2, that has two image components on it. In the constructor for page2 I do this:
// Additional user provided initialization code
image1.setValue("bike1.JPG");
image2.setValue("bike2.JPG");
The jpg files are in the build directory:
C:\Documents and Settings\Darrin\My Documents\Creator\Projects\ImageTest\build\images
The odd thing is that for the first image component(image1), I set a default jpg file (nogo.JPG that is in the same directory as the other two), and that does load.
In fact, when I I check the value of image1 in afterRenderResponse by calling image1.getValue() it still has the default image (nogo.JPG) instead of the one I set it to (bike1.JPG) in the constructor by calling image1.setValue("bike1.JPG");
So, either the image1.setValue() has no effect, or something is overwriting it.
What is the trick to getting an image to load at run time like this?
THANKS!

Answer 1

Well after several more hours of banging myh ead against the wall, I still cannot get this to work.<br><br>
I read in the constructor comments that whatever is in the jsp file will override the backing bean's constructor, so that might be part of the problem, but others I thought got this to work using a similar method.<br><br>
Here is what I tried last which still does not work, but mimics what others have said did work for them:<br><br>
//See if the default jpg file can even be copied over
<br> image3.setHeight(image1.getHeight());
<br> image3.setUrl(image1.getUrl());
<br> image3.setValue(image1.getValue());
<br>
<br> Integer aiw = new Integer("1");
<br> float aar = 0;
<br> float ar = 0;
<br>
<br> ImageIcon ii = new ImageIcon("C:/Documents and Settings/Darrin/My Documents/Creator/Projects/ImageTest/build/images/bike1.JPG");
<br> ar = (float)ii.getIconHeight()/(float)ii.getIconWidth();
<br> aiw = new Integer(ii.getIconHeight());
<br> aar = ar*aiw.intValue();
<br> image1.setHeight(""+(int)aar);
<br> image1.setUrl("images/bike1.JPG");
<br> image2.setValue("C:/Documents and Settings/Darrin/My Documents/Creator/Projects/ImageTest/build/images\\bike2.JPG");
<br> image2.setUrl("C:/Documents and Settings/Darrin/My Documents/Creator/Projects/ImageTest/build/images\\bike2.JPG");
<br><br>Note that when I run this and look at the log that I write out to in afterRenderRepsponse, it shows that image1 (which shows up as the default image I set at design time) and image3 (which does not show up which I set at run time using image1's value) both show the nogo.JPG image from the <b>resource</b> directory while image2 (that I set at run time to be bike2.JPG) is showing up as <b>empty</b>
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This is really getting frustrating, and I would greatly appreciate a small tutorial from the JSC staff on just how you need to go about doing this. given that this is so common a need, a tutorial is warranted. Heck, just clue me in on how it is done and I will write one!
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THANKS!