SetPicture

Description

Assigns an image stored in a blob to be the image in a Picture control.

Applies to

Picture controls

Syntax

picturecontrol.SetPicture ( bimage )

Argument	Description
picturecontrol	The name of a Picture control in which you want to set the bitmap.
bimage	A blob containing the new bitmap. bimage must be a valid picture in bitmap (BMP), Compuserve Graphics Interchange Format (GIF), Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG), run-length encoded (RLE), or Windows Metafile (WMF).

Returns

Integer. Returns 1 if it succeeds and -1 if an error occurs. If any argument’s value is null, SetPicture returns null.

Usage

If you use FileRead to get the bitmap image from a file, remember that the FileRead function can read a maximum of 32,765 bytes at a time. To check the length of a file, call FileLength. If the file is over 32,765 bytes, you can call FileRead more than once and concatenate the return values, or you can call FileReadEx.

For Unicode files and files that you convert to Unicode, you must make sure that the file length value is an even number. Otherwise FileRead or FileReadEx cannot parse the entire file.

Examples

Example 1

These statements allow the user to select a file and then open the file and set the Picture control p_1 to the bitmap in the selected file:

integer fh, ret

blob Emp_pic

string txtname, named

string defext = "BMP"

string Filter = "bitmap Files (*.bmp), *.bmp"

ret = GetFileOpenName("Open Bitmap", txtname, &

		named, defext, filter)

IF ret = 1 THEN

		fh = FileOpen(txtname, StreamMode!)

		IF fh <> -1 THEN

			FileRead(fh, Emp_pic)

			FileClose(fh)

			p_1.SetPicture(Emp_pic)

		END IF

END IF