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save image from url

Post by cusingerBUSCw5N » Thu Nov 29, 2018 4:15 am

Hi. I am trying to save a url image to a mobile device.

I have tried SAVING IT:

useline5 is the filename "https://www.yoururlhere.com/image.png" (edited by Heather as the original example url was a porn site :))

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put useline5 into gheaderimage
	  load url gheaderimage as timage
	 export timage to file specialFolderPath("documents") & "/image_header.png" as png
I have tried ACCESSING it:

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 put url("binfile:" &specialFolderPath("documents") & "/image_header.png" ) into gheaderimage
ACCESSING it definitely doesn't work. I'm not sure whether it is the code that is the problem, or whether the code for saving is wrong.
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I had thought that

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load url gheaderimage with message showHeader

was working. But I now realize that it only works because it had been cached. When I try to change gheaderimage, it doesn't change. So I need to know how to display an image accessed with a url. All my headers are now blank, because I got rid of the caching code. :cry:
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Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance

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Re: save image from url

Post by bn » Thu Nov 29, 2018 5:06 pm

I tried this on a Mac/desktop in LC 9.0.2 RC1 and it worked.

You have to adapt the code to your code. (e.g. I download to desktop, I use a script local etc.)

All code is in the button. I unload before load.

Please see also the User Guide for load. (around p 446/447 for the LC 9.0.2 User Guide)
The dictionary entry for load is not very helpful.

Maybe this works also on mobile.

Kind regards
Bernd

PS please don't post anything that Heather has to edit :)


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Re: save image from url

Post by cusingerBUSCw5N » Thu Nov 29, 2018 5:58 pm

oohhh...I'm sorry ...I had no idea about the site!

And the solution works. Thanks!

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Re: save image from url

Post by cusingerBUSCw5N » Fri Nov 30, 2018 2:44 am

Unfortunately....more complications. The solution worked as long as the image was directly declared in

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local gheaderimage = "https://livecode.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/multiplatform-2-1018x1024.jpg"
when the image comes in through the results of a data request and is put in a variable (tuse) and then put into global gheaderimage:

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 ( put "https://livecode.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/multiplatform-2-1018x1024.jpg" into tuse
   global gheaderimage
   put tuse into gheaderimage


it returns with a tstatus of "contacted":

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put the URLStatus of gheaderimage into tStatus
... not cached. When I changed the code to allow a tstatus to be cached or contacted, the image does not appear.

Just guessing...but does "contacted" mean that Livecode didn't have time to grab the whole image? Regardless... I have no idea how to fix it. I have attached the stack (without bad urls)
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Re: save image from url

Post by cusingerBUSCw5N » Fri Nov 30, 2018 5:20 am

I have tried another example, and when I bring in a different image, it gives me "error" - instead of connected. When I typed in the address, it gives me empty as a status.

This is the code that gives me empty.

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   put "https://www.mywebsite/images/paloalto.png" into gheaderimage
   put the URLStatus of gheaderimage into tStatus
If I bring in the same information, but put it in a variable, it returns an error:

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put "https://www.mywebsite/images/paloalto.png" into useline5
	put useline5 into gheaderimage
      put the URLStatus of gheaderimage into tStatus
The app depends on dynamic loading of these images, so I have to use script to load them. But this method obviously isn't working. :(

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Re: save image from url

Post by AndyP » Fri Nov 30, 2018 5:33 pm

Try using libUrlDownloadToFile instead

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on mouseUp
   
   set the itemdel to slash

   put "https://fileinfo.com/img/icons/files/128/livecode-9094.png" into tUrl
   
   --must have a filename to save too!
   put specialFolderPath("desktop") & slash & item -1 of tUrl into tDestPath 
   
   libUrlDownloadToFile tUrl, tDestPath, "DownloadComplete"
   
end mouseUp

on DownloadComplete pUrl, pStatus
   If pStatus = "Downloaded" then
      answer  information "Picture saved!"
   else
      answer warning "Picture failed to download."
   end if
   unload url pUrl
end DownloadComplete
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Re: save image from url

Post by cusingerBUSCw5N » Fri Nov 30, 2018 8:27 pm

So it finally works.

I found that the link I was bringing in has a hidden character.

So this works: :D

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put useline5 into gheaderimage
 set the itemdel to slash
 put useline5 into turl0   //begins fixing the hidden character
 find "png" in turl0
put offset("png",turl0) + 2 into twhat
put char 1 to twhat of turl0 into turl   //hidden character is removed
   put specialFolderPath("documents") & slash & "image_header.png" into tDestPath 
   libUrlDownloadToFile tUrl, tDestPath, "DownloadComplete"
   put url("binfile:" &specialFolderPath("documents") & "/image_header.png" ) into gheaderimage
    put gheaderimage into image "header" of card "homepage"
end if
Thanks for your help!

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