Image display Problem

aavio

Hello,
I had created a com dll that converts text to image (bmp) file,i hav a function 'DrawText' to convert it.In the C/AL Symbol Menu functions argument is shown as [VARIANT DrawText :=]DrawText(BSTR My Text)

when i tried to assign SourceExpr of picture box as the same function, it doesnt works...(not the problm with dll thats sure)

I also tried to assign Output of function to a variant type,But variant datatype cant hold a blob datatype naa...then
how can i assign variant datatype to a Picture Box?? plz help :?

Xypher

Since you wrote a COM DLL just use a Stream and write to a temporary blob with it.

There is a nice example of Streaming on the downloads section, but if you can't manage to get it to work let me know and I'll post some code. (Although the example in the downloads section is written in C# if I remember correctly; my example would be in VB.NET :?)

aavio

Thanks for ur reply,...

sorry i didnt find any example with streaming....can u plz provide exact path.. :?:

and also, iam calling this image convertion function from a report,... there i need to print it on...so in reports, blob global variables are not available. otherwise , i need to import these images to a table,but thr will be many images corresponding to a particular record, so if i could get a solution,that after converting to image and assigning it to a picture box that will be better.... do you hav a solution... [-o<

Xypher

For now here is a link to the Stream example found in the Downloads section.

"Access Navision Stream From DotNet" http://www.mibuso.com/dlinfo.asp?FileID=776

What language have you programmed the COM dll in?

I will have to test a little when I have some free time (lately which has been never); But I am sure you can pass a temporary table to a report. As far as sending a temp. table full of image BLOBs that will show up on the report, not sure. :?

Xypher

Anyways,

Here is my take on the COM <-> Navision stream handling (In VB.NET).

Based on Alexey Pavlov's code provided by the above link.

Imports System.IO
Imports System.Text
Imports System.Runtime.InteropServices
Imports System.Runtime.InteropServices.ComTypes

Friend Class Stream
  Private utf8 As New UTF8Encoding

  Public Function WriteToStream(ByVal StreamData As String, _
                                <MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.AsAny)> ByVal ComObjOut As Object) As Integer
    Dim stream As IStream = TryCast(ComObjOut, IStream)
    Dim memStream As New MemoryStream
    Dim buffStreamData As Byte() = Nothing
    Dim buffStream As Byte() = New Byte(&HAFC8) {}
    Dim wBytes As IntPtr = IntPtr.Zero
    Dim _wBytes As Integer = 0
    Dim twBytes As Integer = 0

    If utf8.GetBytes(StreamData, 0, StreamData.Length, buffStreamData, 0) > 0 Then
      memStream.Write(buffStreamData, 0, buffStreamData.Length)

      wBytes = Marshal.AllocHGlobal(4)

      Do
        _wBytes = memStream.Read(buffStream, 0, buffStream.Length)
        Marshal.WriteInt32(wBytes, _wBytes)
        stream.Write(buffStream, _wBytes, wBytes)
        twBytes += _wBytes
      Loop While _wBytes > 0

      Marshal.FreeHGlobal(wBytes)

      Return twBytes
    Else
      Return -1
    End If
  End Function

  Public Function ReadFromStream(ByRef StreamData As String, _
                                 <MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.AsAny)> ByVal ComObjIn As Object) As Integer
    Dim stream As IStream = TryCast(ComObjIn, IStream)
    Dim memStream As New MemoryStream
    Dim buffStream As Byte() = New Byte(&HAFC8) {}
    Dim rBytes As IntPtr = IntPtr.Zero
    Dim _rBytes As Integer = 0
    Dim trBytes As Integer = 0

    rBytes = Marshal.AllocHGlobal(4)

    Try
      Do
        stream.Read(buffStream, buffStream.Length, rBytes)
        _rBytes = Marshal.ReadInt32(rBytes)
        memStream.Write(buffStream, 0, _rBytes)
        trBytes += _rBytes
      Loop While _rBytes > 0
    Finally
      Marshal.FreeHGlobal(rBytes)
    End Try

    If trBytes > 0 Then StreamData = utf8.GetString(memStream.ToArray)

    Return trBytes
  End Function
End Class