As a beginner, I will be lenient on you- don't take the discussion off list.
This can help other people. As a result I have replied to you on the list.

Ok- if the URL is correct- and when you go back to the page you can see it -
then that's even more confusing.

So you have an HTML page with an <IMG> tag- and that page doesn't always
show the image- am I understanding you properly? What happens if you refresh
the page after the second visit to the page? Does the refresh work to
download the image?

I NEVER use the P&D wizard... I'd rather know what my installation is doing
and what's going on- so it COULD be a side effect of the P&D Wizard.. I
don't know.




Hal Levy
StarMedia Network, Inc.
Intranet Development Manager

-----Original Message-----
From: Brian McGann [mailto:BrianM@r...]
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 12:41 PM
To: 'hal.levy@s...'
Subject: Thanks for the reply


I'm guessing the COM object is looking in the virtual directory in the
default site for the image and I'm not sure if the COM object is
instantiated at a server level or not. When I completed the program I used
the Package & Deployment wizard to make the setup.exe and .cab files. I
included the html, asp, and gif files with the deployment. I then ran the
setup.exe on the server and placed all the files in the same directory in
the default website. My html page is the default document in the directory
so it shows up first when I go to that address. When I access the site
through my LAN the path for the image shows up when I right-click on the
image place-holder in my browser and choose properties.  When I go to the
next page and come back to the original page the image shows up. Like I
said, I am a beginner so please excuse my ignorance. Thanks!!

Your being too vague. 
I assume you are using an ASP page that speaks to a COM object? 
Where is that COM object looking to get the GIF image? 
Is the COM object instatiated at a server or session level? 
You need to explain your architecture a bit better. 
Hal Levy 
StarMedia Network, Inc. 
Intranet Development Manager 
-----Original Message----- 
From: Brian McGann [<mailto:brianm@r...>] 
Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 4:55 PM 
To: IIS_Applictaions 
Subject: [iis_applications] gif image doesn't display or takes forever 
to display 
i am new to iis programming with vb6. i've created a small program that 
uses one html page to gather info and i use the same page to display the 
results. on the html page is a 38k gif image. when i run the program 
through visual basic everything works fine. when i deploy (using package & 
deployment wizard) it to my webserver, which i access through our LAN, 
everything works fine except the gif image doesn't display or it takes an 
unusually long time to display. in troubleshooting this problem i had my 
vb program access an html page that only displayed the gif image and it 
displayed immediately. 
what am i doing wrong? if i'm being too vague let me know. i can provide 
more info.