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).


Return value

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

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