Saving an Inform picturebox.

[James D Jarvis]

This involves using Inform.
I've figured out how to load images generated within the program into picture boxes and edit them but I haven't figured out how to save a picturebox as an image file.

It is possible to have all graphics commands write to a buffer image that is loaded into a picturebox when needed throughout execution of the program, and save that to a file when desired.  But that defeats some of the purpose of using Inform.

Any ideas?

[bplus]

Doesn't inForm have an Image property for the Picture Box Control which is a handle you can use with the newish _SaveImage routine?

[James D Jarvis]

Doesn't inForm have an Image property for the Picture Box Control which is a handle you can use with the newish _SaveImage routine?

you can load an image file into a picturebox with a filename as per doumentation

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LoadImage Control(PictureBox), ImageFile$

or you can also do this with BeginDraw and EndDraw

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                limage& = _LoadImage(Imagefile$)

                BeginDraw PictureBox1

                _PutImage (0, 0), limage&

                EndDraw PictureBox1

but I haven't figure out how to save out a picturebox itself. 

my problem is while  this would add a circle to the picturebox

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                BeginDraw PictureBox1

                circle(30,30),12,_rgb32(100,100,200)

                EndDraw PictureBox1

I have no clue how to save that out as an image file from the picturebox. If I could find an image handle in the inform code I could do it but I just haven't figured it out. (or if it has any for the picturebox itself).

[bplus]

I would think the piture box keeps an image handle property for the current image being displayed after mods to original. How else would refresh work?

https://github.com/FellippeHeitor/InForm...icture-box

nope! see Fellippe Heitor

[a740g]

Using "BeginDraw foo" sets foo as the current destination image. You could then simply use "_SAVEIMAGE fileName$" to write out the current destination image to disk.