Is MediaFile Required?

[aperry]

I have some JPEG images that I want to show thumbnails of in a menu. The only way I have been able to get them to show is to do something similar to the following:

+ currFile = new_java_io_File(filename)
  + if GetMediaFileForFilePath(currfile) == null
    + true
      + AddMediaFile(currfile, "")
        + Refresh()
          + GetThumbnail(GetMediaFileForFilePath(currfile))
    + false
      + GetThumbnail(GetMediaFileForFilePath(currfile))
        -pic- Untitled

My question is, do I really need to do the "AddMediaFile" or is there another way of pulling in the image? Is there really a problem doing the AddMediaFile, or am I worrying for nothing?

Thanks for any help!

[GKusnick]

No, you don't need to do all that. There are several simpler ways to do it.

1. Call LoadImageFile with the filename, and pass that in to the Image widget.
2. Create a java.io.File, and pass that in to the Image widget.
3. Put the filename string into an attribute variable, and reference the variable from the Image widget's Source File property.

[aperry]

Cool, thanks. I went with option 1. Worked great!

[Narflex]

You can also just pass the string itself into the Image Widget(by using an Action parent). It'll then load the image from the path/URL or whatever it was given.

[Opus4]

Rats! I missed a chance to post a manual reference for p. 37 of the v4.1 Studio manual. Oh well, it is never too late, I suppose.

- Andy

[aperry]

Originally Posted by Narflex

You can also just pass the string itself into the Image Widget(by using an Action parent). It'll then load the image from the path/URL or whatever it was given.

I like that even better!

I'm sure there's going to be about 23490084 things I could have done better in my STVI, and hopefully as time goes on, I'll learn these...

[aperry]

Originally Posted by Opus4

Rats! I missed a chance to post a manual reference for p. 138 of the v4.1 Studio manual. Oh well, it is never too late, I suppose.

I don't see a reference to image stuff on page 138 (at least not in the one in your sig).

[Opus4]

Originally Posted by aperry

I don't see a reference to image stuff on page 138 (at least not in the one in your sig).

Hmmm... If anyone can explain to me how I managed to change '37' into '138', please let me know! I edited the above post to reference p. 37.

(That's the page for the Image Widget details.)

- Andy

[stanger89]

Originally Posted by Opus4

Hmmm... If anyone can explain to me how I managed to change '37' into '138', please let me know!

Take 37 and add 1 to both ends