Show absolute and relative (to the current file in Editor) images in Object inspector

[nicoguaro]

First, congratulations for the excellent job done with spyder.

The Object inspector is really useful when you want to see the documentation of some functions. It would be really useful if one can show images (as sphinx does) in it.

[ccordoba12]

@blink1073 I think you solved this one in one of the last PRs merged on Bitbucket, right?

[blink1073]

Yep, in this PR we added the ability to view images in the current directory. I'm pretty sure absolute paths to images always worked.

[nicoguaro]

I just tried absolute paths to images. It worked for images from internet but not locally, at least in Windows. I tried different ways of giving the absolute path... but didn't succeed.

def absolute_path_test():
    r"""Test for image rendering in Object inspector.

    Math rendering

    .. math::
            \sin\left(\frac{1}{x}\right)

    This is an image from internet

    .. image:: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/Sine_one_period.svg 

    This is a local file

    .. image:: D:/lena512.png    

    """

[blink1073]

@nicoguaro, absolute paths must be URIs, in this case: file:///D:/lena512.png. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_URI_scheme.

[nicoguaro]

@blink1073, it works, thanks!! I couldn't find that information in the documentation of Sphinx, though :-/. I will be waiting for the option of relative paths then :).

[ccordoba12]

Ok, I think this is solved in master.