[simon.hain]

i have a bitmap that i aquire programmatically.
I'd like to send the bitmap as an attachment.

How do i get the bitmap into the required byte[] format of SupportedAttachmentPart ?

[arifzaman]

Hi simon.hain,

You can use "net.rim.device.api.system.EncodedImage" to get byte[] from Bitmap.

Cheers,
ARIF

[simon.hain]

could you provide me a short example?

EncodedImage reads:
To decode an image, first call EncodedImage.createEncodedImage to generate an instance of EncodedImage, and then call getBitmap.

createEncodedImage wants a byte-array - which i don't have.

[arifzaman]

Hi simon.hain,

Originally Posted by simon.hain

EncodedImage reads:
To decode an image, first call EncodedImage.createEncodedImage to generate an instance of EncodedImage, and then call getBitmap.

createEncodedImage wants a byte-array - which i don't have.

Here is a sample code:

// Creates an EncodedImage from provided name resource
EncodedImage image = EncodedImage.getEncodedImageResource("logo.bmp");
// Returns a byte array containing the encoded data for this EncodedImage
byte[] array = image.getData();
// Decodes the image represented by this EncodedImage and returns a Bitmap
Bitmap LOGO_BMP = image.getBitmap();

Cheers,
ARIF

[simon.hain]

first of all, thank you for your patience.
my problem with using your example code is that i can't provide my bitmap as a resource. I read it from an external source, like
Bitmap bmp = getBitmap();

now i get the error:
cannot find symbol
symbol : method getEncodedImageResource(net.rim.device.api.system. Bitmap)

is there a way i can provide my new bitmap as a named resource?

Originally Posted by arifzaman

Hi simon.hain,
Here is a sample code:

// Creates an EncodedImage from provided name resource
EncodedImage image = EncodedImage.getEncodedImageResource("logo.bmp");
// Returns a byte array containing the encoded data for this EncodedImage
byte[] array = image.getData();
// Decodes the image represented by this EncodedImage and returns a Bitmap
Bitmap LOGO_BMP = image.getBitmap();

Cheers,
ARIF

[Rose]

Originally Posted by simon.hain

first of all, thank you for your patience.
my problem with using your example code is that i can't provide my bitmap as a resource. I read it from an external source, like
Bitmap bmp = getBitmap();

now i get the error:
cannot find symbol
symbol : method getEncodedImageResource(net.rim.device.api.system. Bitmap)

is there a way i can provide my new bitmap as a named resource?

Can you describe clearly what you mean as external resource..From where you are reading the bitmap and how ?

If it is a file you will be reading as byte[]. So you can create a Encoded Image from that byte array and bitmap from that Encoded Image.

What actually the function getBitmap() do ?

[simon.hain]

i am using a function of the Linea SCP SDK:

 Bitmap bmp = dsc.GetSignatureDataScreenBMP();

unfortunately there is no information about this function in the mentioned SDK.
I'd love to use EncodedImage etc but all functions of the RIM API seem to need a resource, not just an object.

Originally Posted by Rose

Can you describe clearly what you mean as external resource..From where you are reading the bitmap and how ?

If it is a file you will be reading as byte[]. So you can create a Encoded Image from that byte array and bitmap from that Encoded Image.

What actually the function getBitmap() do ?

[rab1]

Simon,

How did you end up solving your problem? I may have a similar one. Accessing the data (i.e. byte[] data) from a bitmap that is drawn on the screen, not from resources.

Thanks

[simon.hain]

i just looked up my code, been a while and i am not sure if it worked correctly:

 /**
* Receive bytearray containing the pixel positions of a bitmap which are painted.
* @param bmp Bitmap to receive painted pixels
* @return Bytearray of numbers with positions of painted pixels */
 public byte[] getBytesFromBitmap(Bitmap bmp) { 
 try {
        int height=bmp.getHeight();
        int width=bmp.getWidth();
        int[] rgbdata = new int[width*height];
        ByteArrayOutputStream bos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
        DataOutputStream dos = new DataOutputStream(bos);
        Graphics g = new Graphics(bmp);
        bmp.getARGB(rgbdata,0,width,0,0,width,height);
        for (int i = 0; i < rgbdata.length ; i++) {
            if (rgbdata[i] != -1) {
                dos.writeInt(i);
                dos.flush();
                //l++; 
                }
             } 
         bos.flush();
         return bos.toByteArray(); 
       } catch (Exception ex) {
            Dialog.alert("getBytesFromBitmap: " + ex.toString()); return null; } 
}

[Smiley8]

Originally Posted by simon.hain

i just looked up my code, been a while and i am not sure if it worked correctly:

 /**
* Receive bytearray containing the pixel positions of a bitmap which are painted.
* @param bmp Bitmap to receive painted pixels
* @return Bytearray of numbers with positions of painted pixels */
 public byte[] getBytesFromBitmap(Bitmap bmp) { 
 try {
        int height=bmp.getHeight();
        int width=bmp.getWidth();
        int[] rgbdata = new int[width*height];
        ByteArrayOutputStream bos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
        DataOutputStream dos = new DataOutputStream(bos);
        Graphics g = new Graphics(bmp);
        bmp.getARGB(rgbdata,0,width,0,0,width,height);
        for (int i = 0; i < rgbdata.length ; i++) {
            if (rgbdata[i] != -1) {
                dos.writeInt(i);
                dos.flush();
                //l++; 
                }
             } 
         bos.flush();
         return bos.toByteArray(); 
       } catch (Exception ex) {
            Dialog.alert("getBytesFromBitmap: " + ex.toString()); return null; } 
}

i'm having problem saving the bytes and and recreating the bitmap using this function.

here is what i my code

 _bytes = getBytesFromBitmap(_mybitmap);

 Bitmap _bmap = new Bitmap(Bitmap.ROWWISE_16BIT_COLOR , 32, 32, _bytes) ;
graphics.drawBitmap(1,30, 32, 32, _bmap, 0, 0);

is this the correct way of creating the bitmap? when it display it does not show the same bitmap.