Question

I am trying to manually set the img src to a path on the filesystem, and then I want to draw that image on a canvas. I am using:

    var curr_canv = document.getElementById('c_main').getContext('2d');
    var img = new Image();

    img.width = 525;
    img.height = 400;

    img.src = "..\AAAA\BBBB\CCCC\myimage.jpg";

    curr_canv.drawImage(img,0,0);

But nothing is drawn on the canvas after I do this. Any thoughts?

Answer 1

You need to set the path to an absolute path within your webserver.
Javascript in the browser has no access to any filesystem.