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Re: how to save a mathematica-made imagebox.image as jpg, gif, bmp in c#/.netlink?

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• Subject: [mg48053] Re: how to save a mathematica-made imagebox.image as jpg, gif, bmp in c#/.netlink?
• From: "Hans Michel" <hansjm at bellsouth.net>
• Date: Sun, 9 May 2004 03:02:27 -0400 (EDT)
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• Reply-to: "Hans Michel" <hansjm at bellsouth.net>
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cdj:

Try this:

private Bitmap MyImage ;
MyImage = new Bitmap(mathKernel.Graphics[0]);
graphicsBox.Image = (Image) MyImage ;

Hans
"cdj" <a_cjones at hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:c7fhje$oa1$1 at smc.vnet.net...
> Hi all,
>
> This has been buggin me for awhile... I'm sure I'm doing something
> silly, but I can't figure out what....
>
> It suffices to consider the following problem:
>
> (1) Use the mathematica-supplied c# example (let's you enter a Mathematica
> statement, compute, and captures output.)
>
> How to save a graphicsBox.Image to a file, say as a jpg?
>
> There's standard code that is available on msdn, to wit:
>
> (2)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vbcon/html/vbtsksavingfilesusingsavefiledialogcomponent.asp
>
> When I try to join these 2 bits of code together, I get a totally
> uninformative GDI+ error of some sort.
>
> I'm under the impression that the problem is that the Mathematica graphic
> isn't being assigned to the picturebox in the "normal" way, or some
> such thing. The reason I have this impression is that while the
> following code-bits are quite similar, I can save with one, but not
> with the other:
>
> (a) graphicsBox.Image = mathKernel.Graphics[0];
>
> (b) graphicsBox.Image = Image.FromFile("pathtomyfile.jpg");
>
> Can anybody explain to me why the msdn routine works fine with (b),
> but not with (a)?
>
> I've been brief here with the description of my problem - I'm happy to
> expand a bit on anything above, if it would be helpful....
>
> thx much for any insights,
>
> cdj
>