Hi James, If setting the text or putting the data into an image object doesn't work, then the data is corrupt. What happens if you write the variable to a file and try to open it with an image editor?
-- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 Use Color Converter to convert CMYK, RGB, RAL, XYZ, H.Lab and other colour spaces. http://www.color-converter.com On 28 jun 2012, at 18:05, James Hale wrote: > I am extracting files from a zip archive directly into variables. > Some of the files may be jpeg image files. > How can I display these image files from the respective variables? > > Here is what I have tried. > I created an image object on my card and then tried to get it to display the > image that was extracted to the variable. > Putting the variable into the image object doesn't seem to work. > Setting the imagedata of the image object to the variable didn't work. > Setting the text of the image object to the variable didn't work. > > Am I wasting my time here in thinking the variable contains data I can use? > Should I be extracting the image file from the archive to a file first and > then import it (or URL a bin file of it). > > I wanted to avoid having to write a file and then read it in and then delete > it, if possible > > James _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
