[V4MD] please read ALL: -- Images

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 1/22/06 9:44 PM, "Tschoatscho Kettl" <ich at medienzar.de> wrote:

> I admit that I never used Arca until now. So I can't make any
> suggestions by comparing Valentina to Arca. However, there are a few
> things that I missed in Valintina in my recent projects:

> (1)Images:
> Director has a data type #image since version 8. You can treat an
> image independently from a bitmap member within Director.

> With Valentina you have to create a dummy bitmap member and use
> <VCursor>.SetPicture/GetPicture(<fieldName>,<memberRef>) to get/set
> an image from/to a database. Therefore we cannot return pictures
> within a query's propList result. Even worse: if you want a
> losslessly compressed picture, a picture with a color depth that JPEG
> doesnt support (1,2,4,8) or a picture using an alpha mask, you have
> to use <VCursor>.SetMedia/GetMedia(<fieldName>,<memberRef>) instead.

> So I would recommend that V4MD2 should stop compatibility with
> Director versions lower than 8 and therefore natively support the new
> datatypes that came up with Director 8. Besides #image (which is the
> most important for me) there are #date and #color as well. The latter
> could be expressed with strings as well, but especially with date and
> time fields  it is sometimes very annoying to parse the strings
> respecting the end user's local settings. The #date type is
> independent of local settings and even has a #seconds property which
> could be used to express a  time field's value based on integer
> instead of string.

Moment!

V4MD v2 can work with Images!

Please check methods

    "getImage object me, *      -- Reads Picture field to the image
    "setImage object me, *      -- Writes image object into the Picture

Do you know this methods ?

-- 
Best regards,

Ruslan Zasukhin
VP Engineering and New Technology
Paradigma Software, Inc

Valentina - Joining Worlds of Information
http://www.paradigmasoft.com

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