Hi,

I'm interested in the process of taking a live bitmap oject with an image
already loaded in it, and representing it as a string such that a whole
bitmap carrying the same image can be constructed using only that string. It
doesn't HAVE to be a string, it could be an array of bytes or whatever, as
long as I can write code that converts it to a string carrying hex code
someting like "FF00FF" etc.

I know we're not in C++, but ... Any pointers ;-)

Thanks
-Ron

"Ron M. Newman" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> I'm interested in the process of taking a live bitmap oject with an image
> already loaded in it, and representing it as a string such that a whole
> bitmap carrying the same image can be constructed using only that string. It
> doesn't HAVE to be a string, it could be an array of bytes or whatever, as
> long as I can write code that converts it to a string carrying hex code
> someting like "FF00FF" etc.

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using System;
using System.Drawing;
using System.IO;
using System.Drawing.Imaging;
using System.Windows.Forms;

class App
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
MemoryStream temp = new MemoryStream();
using (Image image = Image.FromFile(args[0]))
image.Save(temp, ImageFormat.Jpeg);
temp.Position = 0;

string asString = Convert.ToBase64String(temp.ToArray());
Console.WriteLine(asString);

MemoryStream loaded = new
MemoryStream(Convert.FromBase64String(asString));
using (Image image = Image.FromStream(loaded))
{
Form form = new Form();
form.Paint += delegate(object sender, PaintEventArgs e)
{
e.Graphics.DrawImage(image, Point.Empty);
};
form.ClientSize = image.Size;
Application.Run(form);
}
}
}
--->8---

-- Barry

--
http://barrkel.blogspot.com/

wow, cool. thanks!

"Barry Kelly" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news(E-Mail Removed)...
> "Ron M. Newman" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>> I'm interested in the process of taking a live bitmap oject with an image
>> already loaded in it, and representing it as a string such that a whole
>> bitmap carrying the same image can be constructed using only that string.
>> It
>> doesn't HAVE to be a string, it could be an array of bytes or whatever,
>> as
>> long as I can write code that converts it to a string carrying hex code
>> someting like "FF00FF" etc.
>
> ---8<---
> using System;
> using System.Drawing;
> using System.IO;
> using System.Drawing.Imaging;
> using System.Windows.Forms;
>
> class App
> {
> static void Main(string[] args)
> {
> MemoryStream temp = new MemoryStream();
> using (Image image = Image.FromFile(args[0]))
> image.Save(temp, ImageFormat.Jpeg);
> temp.Position = 0;
>
> string asString = Convert.ToBase64String(temp.ToArray());
> Console.WriteLine(asString);
>
> MemoryStream loaded = new
> MemoryStream(Convert.FromBase64String(asString));
> using (Image image = Image.FromStream(loaded))
> {
> Form form = new Form();
> form.Paint += delegate(object sender, PaintEventArgs e)
> {
> e.Graphics.DrawImage(image, Point.Empty);
> };
> form.ClientSize = image.Size;
> Application.Run(form);
> }
> }
> }
> --->8---
>
> -- Barry
>
> --
> http://barrkel.blogspot.com/