static boolean loadBufferedImage_useImageCache = true;

static BufferedImage loadBufferedImage(String snippetIDOrURLOrFile) ctex {
  ping();
  if (snippetIDOrURLOrFile == null) ret null;
  if (isURL(snippetIDOrURLOrFile))
    ret imageIO_readURL(snippetIDOrURLOrFile);

  if (isSnippetID(snippetIDOrURLOrFile)) {
    S snippetID = "" + parseSnippetID(snippetIDOrURLOrFile);
    
    ifndef NoResourceLoader
    IResourceLoader rl = vm_getResourceLoader();
    if (rl != null)
      ret loadBufferedImage(rl.loadLibrary(snippetID));
    endifndef
    
    File dir = imageSnippetsCacheDir();
    if (loadBufferedImage_useImageCache) {
      dir.mkdirs();
      File file = new File(dir, snippetID + ".png");
      if (file.exists() && file.length() != 0)
        try {
          return ImageIO.read(file);
        } catch (Throwable e) {
          e.printStackTrace();
          // fall back to loading from sourceforge
        }
    }
  
    String imageURL = snippetImageURL_http(snippetID);
    print("Loading image: " + imageURL);
    BufferedImage image = imageIO_readURL(imageURL);
  
    if (loadBufferedImage_useImageCache) {
      File tempFile = new File(dir, snippetID + ".tmp." + System.currentTimeMillis());
      ImageIO.write(image, "png", tempFile);
      tempFile.renameTo(new File(dir, snippetID + ".png"));
      //Log.info("Cached image.");
    }
  
    //Log.info("Loaded image.");
    return image;
  } else
    ret loadBufferedImage(new File(snippetIDOrURLOrFile));
}

static BufferedImage loadBufferedImage(File file) {
  ret loadBufferedImageFile(file);
}