All these problems will go away with neo... Because java does not share cf's
weaknesses. Needless to say java's support of binary objects is far greater
then cf's. Btw, my cf and php applications work quite nicely together.
Alexander Sicular
Chief Technology Architect
Neurological Institute of New York
Columbia University
as867 [at] columbia {dot} edu
|-----Original Message-----
|From: Franke, Ir. G.J. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
|Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 11:09 AM
|To: CF-Talk
|Subject: RE: binary stream (image) output to the browser
|
|
|Thanx! perhaps an new feature for CF 6 or Neo?
|cheers, Jappe
|
|> -----Original Message-----
|> From: Sicular, Alexander [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
|> Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 17:02
|> To: CF-Talk
|> Subject: RE: binary stream (image) output to the browser
|>
|>
|> not possible. i had many a long talk with many people at
|> devcon about this
|> very issue. unfortunately cf's binary handling is not the
|> best. i use php
|> on linux to do all my image/binary stuff. to use cf, you need
|> to write to
|> the hd. also uploading images to the db is done in base64,
|> you need to write
|> some sp's to convert from b64 to bin on the db. i don't
|> recommend storing
|> bin objects in the db as b64, less efficient (~30%).
|>
|> good luck,
|>
|> Alexander Sicular
|> Chief Technology Architect
|> Neurological Institute of New York
|> Columbia University
|> as867 {at} columbia [dot] edu
|>
|> -----Original Message-----
|> From: Franke, Ir. G.J. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
|> Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 10:53 AM
|> To: CF-Talk
|> Subject: binary stream (image) output to the browser
|>
|>
|> Hello there... does anyone know if it is possible to write an
|> image stored
|> in a variable, directly to the browser without writing it to
|> the HDD first?
|>
|> <cfif server.os.name eq "Windows NT">
|> <cfobject type="COM" action="Create" class="top10.genmap"
|> name="Bitmapper">
|>
|> <cfset picture = Bitmapper(coords)>
|>
|> <cffile action="WRITE"
|> file="C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\test\#coords#.jpg"
|> output="#picture#" addnewline="No">
|>
|> <cfoutput><img src="#coords#.jpg" border="0"></cfoutput> </cfif>
|>
|> this works... but how can i get it to work without the cffile action?
|>
|>
|>
|
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