[V4MD] GetPicture

[Marcus Bointon]

on 20/2/04 18:42, Martin Kloss at martin.kloss at gmx.de wrote:

> No, you are absolutely correct, it can only return the outdated "picture"
> property, so it's basically useless. And there are a couple of bugs
> associated with getting the picture property. So avoid it altogehter.
> You always have to create a bitmap castmember, get the data
> from the db using GetPicture() and a member reference and then
> get the image from the new member and delete the member.
> 
> That's the way I do it, because in most cases I just need and
> image object for further manipulation. It's bad for performance
> and seems very awkward, but it's the only way to work with it :-(

Thanks, good to know I'm not going mad! Time for a docs update Ruslan!

Marcus
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