cachePictures

Type: Boolean

Availability: Read or write at run time only

The cachePictures property of the Picture class has meaning only when the application is running in JADE thin client mode and when the picture object is attached to a physical window.

By default, setting the picture properties of a Picture or JadeMask control at run time causes those pictures to be stored in the cache file of the application server and the cache file of the presentation client unless the UseCacheFile parameter in the [JadeThinClient] section of the JADE initialization file is set to false.

However, you can set this property to false in situations where you do not require this caching because the picture is only ever downloaded once and will therefore unnecessarily add entries to those cache files. Examples of where you could set this property to false are:

Setting this property to false affects the: