Images do not refresh.

[asmyers]

When including images in an asciidoc document they do not get refreshed when the
document is updated. Even if I close the tab showing the preview and reopen it the old
images are still displayed.

[mojavelinux]

My first thought is whether this is an issue in Atom. We could always append a query string to the images using JavaScript to force them to reload...perhaps when the tab is opened.

[sandermak]

Running into the same issue currently; is there anything I can do to work around this problem?

[jxerome]

I have the same issue and this is quite annoying.

[mojavelinux]

Does the same thing happen in the Markdown preview by chance?

[nicorikken]

Can confirm as well. A restart of Atom is needed to refresh the image. Simply toggling the preview is not enough. I've tried it with the markdown preview, and it shows the same behavior.

[mojavelinux]

Perhaps we can append a timestamp to the query string of the image URL. Not pretty, but if this is a low-level issue in Atom, that might allow us to work around it.

[nicorikken]

Any idea if this would impact other forms of caching/optimization by Atom? Maybe a hash would be better (more computing though)? If the time-stamp is only updated when the plugin is toggled, I guess it should work, rather than continuously updating cached images when the preview reloads.

[mojavelinux]

Can we find the upstream bug?

[ldez]

It's not a bug but a feature ;)
Use to optimize Atom interface.

[sandermak]

Looks like adding a querystring/fragment is what the Markdown guys did as well: https://github.com/Galadirith/markdown-preview-plus/issues/49

[ldez]

I have created a PR with this trick but currently the images don't reload only when they change.
It's normal.

To do automatically refresh when changed we must watch the images. Related to #136.

[nicorikken]

@ldez does your PR trigger continuous reloading, or on toggle? The latter would be sufficient for now as it prevents having to close Atom. Better file watching like #136 would indeed be nice.

[ldez]

your PR trigger continuous reloading, or on toggle

Both, if you change the document the images are automatically reload, if you only change the images you must toggle.