[V4MD] Problem with setPicture / getPicture

[Andrew Sinning]

I was having problems with SetMedia, which is similar to SetPicture.
Turned out I wasn't calling UpdateRecord() after SetMedia.



-----Original Message-----
From: valentina-bounces at lists.macserve.net
[mailto:valentina-bounces at lists.macserve.net]On Behalf Of Scott Runkel
Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 6:31 PM
To: Valentina Developers
Subject: [V4MD] Problem with setPicture / getPicture


For the life of me I can't quite get setPicture/getPicture to work. This
is
Director MX, Windows XP, authoring. I apologize if there's just some
little
thing I have overlooked, but after about 3 hours with this, I just can't
keep
working on it.

I am trying to put a bitmap into my existing database. I have a
"picture"-type
field called "picture".

I have boiled down what I'm trying to the following test handlers. The
first one
attempts to set the picture, the second attempts to get the picture.
When I
finally do "getPicture" at the end of the second handler, I get:

* V4MD *: GetPicture...error -2147218498

But note that at the end of the first handler, "getpicture" is
successful! I
don't understand what's happening between that point and the next time I
try to
get the picture, when it fails. Is there some command I am missing? I
threw in a
"flush" command for good measure, didn't seem to help.

on setpicturetest
  sql = "select * from media where type = 'figure'"
  gocursor = 0
  goCursor = new(Xtra "VCursor", GetRef(goDB), sql, 2, 3, 2)
  put "count = " & getrecordcount(goCursor)  -- this returns 1
  goToRecord(goCursor, 1)
  put getfield(gocursor, "linktext")  -- this returns the correct text
from the
record
  setpicture(goCursor, "picture", member "PIR-1992-01-05-01", 50)
  flush(goDB)  -- * V4MD *: SetPicture...done
  getpicture (goCursor, "picture", member "pictest") -- the correct
picture
appears in the member
end

on getpicturetest
  sql = "select * from media where type = 'figure'"  -- there is only
one such
record
  gocursor = 0
  goCursor = new(Xtra "VCursor", GetRef(goDB), sql, 2, 3, 2)
  put "count = " & getrecordcount(goCursor)  -- returns 1
  goToRecord(goCursor, 1)
  getpicture (goCursor, "picture", member "pictest")
end

Thanks.

-SR

Scott Runkel
Director of Technology
Hypix Media, Inc.
503-722-2123


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