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/Picture/Picture To String


Required plugins for this example: MBS Images Plugin, MBS Main Plugin

You find this example project in your Plugins Download as a Xojo project file within the examples folder: /Picture/Picture To String

This example is the version from Sun, 17th Mar 2012.

Project "Picture To String.xojo_binary_project"
Class App Inherits Application
Const kEditClear = "&Löschen"
Const kFileQuit = "Beenden"
Const kFileQuitShortcut = ""
End Class
Class Window1 Inherits Window
Control PushButton1 Inherits PushButton
ControlInstance PushButton1 Inherits PushButton
EventHandler Sub Action() out.Backdrop=nil // some picture dim p as Picture = LogoMBS(500) // compress dim s as string = PictureToJPEGStringMBS(p, 75) JPEGSize.text=Str(lenb(s)) // decompress dim q as Picture = JPEGStringToPictureMBS(s) out.Backdrop=q if q<>Nil then me.Caption="Works" end if End EventHandler
End Control
Control PushButton2 Inherits PushButton
ControlInstance PushButton2 Inherits PushButton
EventHandler Sub Action() out.Backdrop=nil // some picture dim p as Picture = LogoMBS(500) // compress dim s as string = PictureToJPEGString(p, 75) JPEGSize.text=Str(lenb(s)) // decompress dim q as Picture = StringToPicture(s) out.Backdrop=q if q<>Nil then me.Caption="Works" end if End EventHandler
End Control
Control out Inherits Canvas
ControlInstance out Inherits Canvas
End Control
Control StaticText1 Inherits Label
ControlInstance StaticText1 Inherits Label
End Control
Control PushButton3 Inherits PushButton
ControlInstance PushButton3 Inherits PushButton
EventHandler Sub Action() out.Backdrop=nil // some picture dim p as Picture = LogoMBS(500) // compress dim s as string = PictureToTIFFStringMBS(p) tiffsize.text=Str(lenb(s)) // decompress dim q as Picture = TIFFStringToPictureMBS(s) out.Backdrop=q if q<>Nil then me.Caption="Works" end if End EventHandler
End Control
Control PushButton4 Inherits PushButton
ControlInstance PushButton4 Inherits PushButton
EventHandler Sub Action() out.Backdrop=nil // some picture dim p as Picture = LogoMBS(500) // compress dim s as string = PictureToTiffString(p) tiffsize.text=Str(lenb(s)) // decompress dim q as Picture = StringToPicture(s) out.Backdrop=q if q<>Nil then me.Caption="Works" end if End EventHandler
End Control
Control StaticText2 Inherits Label
ControlInstance StaticText2 Inherits Label
End Control
Control StaticText3 Inherits Label
ControlInstance StaticText3 Inherits Label
End Control
Control PushButton5 Inherits PushButton
ControlInstance PushButton5 Inherits PushButton
EventHandler Sub Action() out.Backdrop=nil // some picture dim p as Picture = LogoMBS(500) // compress dim s as string = PictureToPNGString(p) pngsize.text=Str(lenb(s)) // decompress dim q as Picture = StringToPicture(s) out.Backdrop=q if q<>Nil then me.Caption="Works" end if End EventHandler
End Control
Control PushButton6 Inherits PushButton
ControlInstance PushButton6 Inherits PushButton
EventHandler Sub Action() const gamma = 0.0 // default gamma out.Backdrop=nil // some picture dim p as Picture = LogoMBS(500) // compress dim s as string = PictureToPNGStringMBS(p, gamma) pngsize.text=Str(lenb(s)) // decompress dim q as Picture = PNGStringToPictureMBS(s, gamma) out.Backdrop=q if q<>Nil then me.Caption="Works" end if End EventHandler
End Control
Control JPEGSize Inherits Label
ControlInstance JPEGSize Inherits Label
End Control
Control TiffSize Inherits Label
ControlInstance TiffSize Inherits Label
End Control
Control PNGSize Inherits Label
ControlInstance PNGSize Inherits Label
End Control
Control StaticText4 Inherits Label
ControlInstance StaticText4 Inherits Label
End Control
End Class
MenuBar MenuBar1
MenuItem FileMenu = "&Ablage"
MenuItem FileQuit = "#App.kFileQuit"
MenuItem EditMenu = "&Bearbeiten"
MenuItem EditUndo = "&Rückgängig"
MenuItem UntitledMenu1 = "-"
MenuItem EditCut = "&Ausschneiden"
MenuItem EditCopy = "&Kopieren"
MenuItem EditPaste = "&Einfügen"
MenuItem EditClear = "#App.kEditClear"
MenuItem UntitledMenu0 = "-"
MenuItem EditSelectAll = "&Alles auswählen"
End MenuBar
Module Util
Function PictureToJPEGString(p as Picture, q as integer) As string dim t as FolderItem = GetTemporaryFolderItem t.SaveAsJPEG p dim b as BinaryStream = t.OpenAsBinaryFile(False) if b<>Nil then Return b.Read(B.Length) end if Exception r as runtimeexception if DebugBuild then MsgBox r.message end if End Function
Function PictureToPNGString(p as Picture) As string dim t as FolderItem = GetTemporaryFolderItem t.SaveAsPicture p, FolderItem.SaveAsPNG dim b as BinaryStream = t.OpenAsBinaryFile(False) if b<>Nil then Return b.Read(B.Length) end if Exception r as runtimeexception if DebugBuild then MsgBox r.message end if End Function
Function PictureToTIFFStringMBS(p as Picture) As string // very easy function // does not set compression, icc profile, mask, etc. dim t as new TiffPictureMBS if t.CreateString(1000000) then t.Pict=p if t.WriteRGB then t.Close Return t.OutputBuffer end if end if Exception r as runtimeexception if DebugBuild then MsgBox r.message end if End Function
Function PictureToTiffString(p as Picture) As string dim t as FolderItem = GetTemporaryFolderItem t.SaveAsPicture p, FolderItem.SaveAsTIFF dim b as BinaryStream = t.OpenAsBinaryFile(False) if b<>Nil then Return b.Read(B.Length) end if Exception r as runtimeexception if DebugBuild then MsgBox r.message end if End Function
Function StringToPicture(s as string) As Picture if lenb(s)=0 then Return nil dim t as FolderItem = GetTemporaryFolderItem dim b as BinaryStream = t.CreateBinaryFile("") if b<>Nil then b.Write s b.Close Return t.OpenAsPicture end if Exception r as runtimeexception if DebugBuild then MsgBox r.message end if End Function
End Module
End Project

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The items on this page are in the following plugins: MBS Picture Plugin.


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