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mx:HTML component displays bytes instead of image (Adobe AIR)

Issue

If the mx:HTML control is linked directly to an image file, as in the following example, the bytes of the image file are shown instead of the image.

<mx:HTML>
<mx:location>
www.myserver.com/showimage.jpg
</mx:location>
</mx:HTML>

Reason

This is a known issue in Adobe AIR 1.0.

Solution

To display images, link to a page that embeds the image rather than linking directly to the image.

For example, if you have a page on your server called "showimage.php"that could embed and display an image, then your code might look something like this:

<mx:HTML>
<mx:location>
http://www.myserver.com/showimage.php?image=/image.jpg
</mx:location>
</mx:HTML>

You could also construct individual pages for your images.