is it possible to load pictures without loading in the setup (like example) ?

Examples
1

when i have too much pictures ( more than thousand in my website )
it’s too long to load all pictures whereas i need one randomly in draw() function.
But i can’t load picture in draw() function.

displayMode(FULLSCREEN)

function setup()
    
    flag={"Bd","Chronologie","Cinema","Geographie","Histoire",
    "Humour","Inventions","Litterature","Musique","Science","Sports","Television"}
    
    for i=1, 12 do
    str="icone"..i.."=nil ; "
    str=str.."http.get('http://gregory.thomas.free.fr/quizz/icones/"
    str=str..flag[i]..".jpg',didGetImage"..i..")"
    f=loadstring(str) ; ic1=f()
    end
    
end

    for i=1, 12 do
    str="function didGetImage"..i.."(theImage,status,head) icone"..i.."=theImage end"
    f=loadstring(str) ; ic1=f()
    end

function draw()
    
    background(20,20,40) ; spriteMode(CORNER) ; textMode(CORNER) ; fill(255, 241, 0, 255)
    
    for lig=1, 3 do
        for col=1,4 do
        j=600-((lig-1)*250+25) ; i=(col-1)*250+25 ; k=(lig-1)*4+col
        f=loadstring("if icone"..k.." ~=nil then sprite(icone"..k..",i,j,220,170) end")
        ic1=f() ; text(flag[k],i,j-40)
        end
    end
    
end
2

Can’t you create two images in your setup function, initialize one and then every so often in your draw loop - trigger a http request to download a new random image into the second image, then when the download is complete swap over the images and repeat?

3

Yes, you can defer loading of images. I wrote a library for deferred loading of anything (images,audio, 3d models) during runtime. I don’t remember if I posted it on github or not. It’s (poorly named) HTTPLoader.

4

Thanks do you have source code of HTTPloader please

5

I’ll clean it up and post soon. It’s not on GitHub.

6

thanks, it will allow me to make several projects without using dropbox