Importing Pictures into a Standalone Dexterity Application

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We have a set of customers who use our standalone dexterity application. They would like to place a logo on an invoice that our app generates for them. It is easy to do one-at-a-time through the development system, but that means that we would have to do it for each customer individually. It would be much easier if we could give the customer the ability to scan, and place into a directory the logo for their company, and then have Dexterilty, our application, read the logo from that directory so that it would then appear on the invoice as their logo. In other words, if their is no logo in the particular diectory (stored as a file -- .tif,.jpg...) then no logo would be utilized on the invoice. If the logo existed in the directory, then the app could use that logo. The problem is how would Dex read that file and store it in the pictures resource library?

Any comments or ideas would be greatly appreciated.\

Thank you....herb

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RE: Importing Pictures into a Standalone Dexterity Application

Hi Herb

There is a Datatype called Picture which can be used to store images.

This functionality was used by the AFA module, in particular the AF_Report_Picture_Access and AF_Report_Picture forms.

To help you, the script behind the Paste button is below: the rest of the code is fairly standard.

{
| call system call to display picture from clipboard
}
local boolean l_OK;

focus field 'FLD Picture';
system 4155, 'FLD Picture' of window AF_Report_Picture_Access of form AF_Report_Picture_Access, l_OK;
if l_OK = false then
call Warning_Dialog,6077,"","","";
end if;

Hope this helps

David