placem.at image placeholders do not work with <Image Url="..." />

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Hi, I was trying to use Placem.at to setup some image placeholders in my app. They were featured on Product Hunt today. Basically you use the URL format

http://placem.at/entity?querystringparam1=value1&querystringparam2=value2

to render specific types of placeholder images.

So for example

http://placem.at/people

would render a placeholder image of a person but I could refine it more like

http://placem.at/people/w=250&h=300&random=1

to get it a specific height, width and to randomize it.

Using either type of URL in the

<Image Url="..." />

tag for a Fuse project does not have it rendering.

Could this please be addressed or a workaround for it posted?

Regards, Nissan

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Hi!

placem.at is really cool! :slight_smile: I think you just misstyped the query, I got placem.at working in fuse. Take a look at this code:

<App Theme="Basic">
    <ScrollView>
        <StackPanel>
            <Image Url="http://placem.at/people" />
            <Image Url="http://placem.at/places?w=256&amp;h=256&amp;txt=Places" StretchMode="PixelPrecise" />
            <Image Url="http://placem.at/things?w=730&amp;h=400&amp;random=1&amp;txt=Hello+World!&amp;txtclr=44E3E7EF&amp;overlay_color=B12B2E36&amp;overlay_blend=normal" />
        </StackPanel>
    </ScrollView>
</App>
3

Thank you. This worked. Not sure where I made my mistake though, but I copied the sample as is and it worked, so I can work with this. Thanks again.

  • Nissan