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Rotating And Saving An Image.

Post by Googie85 » Fri Sep 16, 2022 4:55 am

Hi Guys!!!

I am trying to rotate an image 270 Degrees and then save the image back to an image file. The code is:

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on mouseDown
   set the visible of image "TEST" to true
   
   put the screenrect into blah
   put specialFolderPath("documents") & slash & "Nav.jpg" into GEST
   
   export snapshot from rect blah to file GEST as JPEG   
   
   put "binfile:"&GEST into POL
   put URL POL into image "TEST"
   
   set the angle of image "TEST" to 270
   
   //SAVE IMAGE CODE HERE
   
   put specialFolderPath("documents") & slash & "NavYY.jpg" into GEST1
   put "binfile:"&GEST1 into HYU
   export image "TEST" to URL HYU
   
   //
   
   set the URL of widget "Browser" to GEST1
   
end mouseDown


The resulting file (export image "TEST" to URL HYU) turns out to be a 6.5MB file that is corrupted and cannot be viewed. Is there a simpler way to rotate an image file that I am missing?

Many Thanks,

Googie.

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Re: Rotating And Saving An Image.

Post by richmond62 » Fri Sep 16, 2022 9:18 am

Screen Shot 2022-09-16 at 11.18.44 AM.png
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on mouseUp
   answer file "Select image:"
   if the result is not cancel then
      import paint from file it
      set the name of the last control to "XYZ"
   end if
   set the left of img "XYZ" to 10
   clone img "XYZ"
   set the name of the last control to "XXX"
   set the loc of img "XXX" to 600,200
   set the angle of img "XXX" to 270
   ----
    ask file "Choose where you wish to save your image"if the result = "cancel" 
  then exit mouseUp
  else
   export snapshot from img "XXX" to file it & ".png" as PNG
end if
delete img "XYZ"
delete img "XXX"
end mouseUp
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Re: Rotating And Saving An Image.

Post by Googie85 » Fri Sep 16, 2022 9:26 am

I have no problem rotating the image, rather, saving the image to a .jpg or .png .

Any ideas?

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Re: Rotating And Saving An Image.

Post by richmond62 » Fri Sep 16, 2022 9:30 am

Try the stack I have just uploaded: that will save PNG images.
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Screen Shot 2022-09-16 at 11.34.30 AM.png

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Re: Rotating And Saving An Image.

Post by jmburnod » Fri Sep 16, 2022 12:26 pm

Hi,
You maybe have to add "as PNG" or "as JPG" after this line
export image "TEST" to URL HYU
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Re: Rotating And Saving An Image.

Post by richmond62 » Fri Sep 16, 2022 2:33 pm

The whole problem probably has got to do with NOT being allowed to export
images on Android.

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Re: Rotating And Saving An Image.

Post by stam » Fri Sep 16, 2022 6:06 pm

richmond62 wrote:
Fri Sep 16, 2022 2:33 pm
The whole problem probably has got to do with NOT being allowed to export
images on Android.
Is that really the case? A quick glance at the code above suggest that Googie85 is trying to save to specialFolderPath("documents") which should be doable on mobile? (unless it isn't permitted to save files to the sandboxed Documents folder on Android?).

I wonder if it's not the export that is failing but the 'set the URL' statement sent to the browser widget (last line)?
Dictionary for Browser Widget wrote:In particular, file: URLs must be of the form file://absolute path, and the path should be URL-encoded.
As far as i can tell the URL to the browser widget is passed in format specialFolderPath("documents") & slash & "<filename>" which a) will miss the "file://" bit and b) won't be URL-encoded...

HTH
S.
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Re: Rotating And Saving An Image.

Post by jacque » Fri Sep 16, 2022 6:08 pm

richmond62 wrote:
Fri Sep 16, 2022 2:33 pm
The whole problem probably has got to do with NOT being allowed to export
images on Android.
That's news to both me and the documentation. I think Jean-Marc identified the problem. The docs say:

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 If you don't specify a format, the file is exported as PBM, PGM, or PPM.
I think those formats are old. Specifying an image format will produce a more modern and compact image file.
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Re: Rotating And Saving An Image.

Post by richmond62 » Fri Sep 16, 2022 8:24 pm

PBM: Perfect Bowel Movement . . . 8)

I wonder if anyone remembers those image formats.

I remember learning about JPG in 1993.

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Re: Rotating And Saving An Image.

Post by Klaus » Fri Sep 16, 2022 8:42 pm

richmond62 wrote:
Fri Sep 16, 2022 8:24 pm
I wonder if anyone remembers those image formats.
I do! :-)

I learned to know these formats from Metacard in 1992.
Never heard of them before and actually never after that.

I thinke these are pixel formats from the UNIX "stone age".

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Re: Rotating And Saving An Image.

Post by richmond62 » Fri Sep 16, 2022 8:54 pm

Yes, they are mentioned in the RunRev version 1 dictionary.

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