Load Image into Nav from URL

AntHillMob

I have the requiremnent to parse a website and load some images (with a known structure of URL) in a Blob object of a corresponsing record so it can be shown in a picture box.

I can achieve this by creating an add-in with a picture box that dispalys the image diorectly from the URL address quite simply, but this is another add-in to manage and it makes sense to actually store the image in the record as then it can be used elsewhere in the application. I can't quite get my head arround how to do this, especially given the 'limitations' of file handling on the RTC.

Any pointers welcome.

deV.ch

There are lots of way to do this, I would give this one a try:
An addin with string based addin and convert the image you download to base64 send it back to nav (ControlAddinEvent), in NAV you convert it back & store it using this http://www.mibuso.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=20166#p20166 method.

If you know the url you can download the picture like this:

WebClient Client = new WebClient ();
Stream strm = Client.OpenRead ("http://domain.com/picture.png");

kine

Or you can do the same with usage of .NET Interop directly from the client.