Hi
@Ben.Lyons1I went back and re-read what you were saying. I see that you were talking about taking an actual image data item and saving that to the disk. What I suggested doesn't work directly for that. Just wanted to follow up and say that yeah it cannot be directly saved. You'd have to convert from Image to Binary first.
I grabbed some code from Stack Overflow to test it just in case and it works: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3801275/how-to-convert-image-to-byte-array
I did adjust the code slightly because I'm lazy.
😃 (I added static so I didn't have to instantiate an object when using it)
Here's the Global Code:
public static byte[] ImageToByteArray(System.Drawing.Image imageIn)
{
using (var ms = new MemoryStream())
{
imageIn.Save(ms,imageIn.RawFormat);
return ms.ToArray();
}
}
And then here's what would be in a code stage, assuming an input parameter of ImageIn and an output parameter of BinaryOut
BinaryOut = ImageToByteArray(ImageIn);
And in case anyone is trying this who isn't familiar with programming, be sure to add Namespace imports in the Initialise page > Properties > Code Options > Namespace Imports. For this, you should only have to add System.IO for the MemoryStream. No additions needed in External References.
Edit: Also in case it's not obvious, at this point, the Utility - File Management VBO's action 'Write Binary Data' can be used to write the binary data to the disk. Use the file extension such as .png in the name of the new file. And then the image should be viewable.
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Dave Morris
Cano Ai
Atlanta, GA
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Dave Morris, 3Ci at Southern Company
