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picture embedded in form code?

Ejlersen

Hi

When doing a form it is possible to use THUMBNAIL to place .bmp pictures.

I was however wondering if there is any way to translate picture file (bmp/jpg) into something that can be represented in a form as a axl drawn picture. I would prefer not being dependent on bmppath for users copying bmp pictures to the correct folder. Maybe skill can represent ps code directly or write the code to a file at run time.

Any suggestions.

Best regards

Ole

  • You look at the at the family of axlGrpDrw APIs.  There is no skill code that will translate an existing bmp to line draws there are commerical/shareware programs that will attempt to do it.You would have to take this type of output and convert it to axlGrpDrw APIs

    You can also pass a full path of a bmp file to axlGrpDrwBitmap to avoid BMPPATH issues.

     In <cdsroot>/share/pcb/examples/skill/basic/*  has a simple example.

    You can also try converting a bitmap file to encoded Ascii (look at uuencode/decode as an example). Embed the encoded Ascii in your skill file by assigning it to a variable. When the code is executed, it would save the encoded ascii to a temp file, decode it back to binary and load it via axlGrpDrwBitmap.

  • Could it (the basic folder) be named something else as i do not have it ?

     

  •  Look in <cdsroot>\share\pcb\examples\skill\form\basic

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