PickPhoto into database

[SteveHanlan]

If I use mobilePickPhoto "library" to get a pointer to an image in the iphone/ipad library (or indeed take a photo with the camera), how do I get to the actual image such that I can save, (a thumbnail of it), out to my documents folder?

I get as far as "the name of the last image" which yield the stack reference to it, but where is the actual image?

thanks

Steve

[Jellicle]

Did you read the release notes? For the photo picker command, it says: "...a new image object will be created on the current card of the default stack..."

So the image is on the current card.

Gerry

[SteveHanlan]

Yes I did!

But, I don't get how to save that image out to a file in the 'documents' folder.

Steve

[Jellicle]

I don't get how to save that image out to a file in the 'documents' folder.

This works on the desktop - I think it'll work on iOS:

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set the defaultFolder to specialFolderPath("Documents")
put image "test" into URL (("binfile:"&test&".jpg"))

Just substitute whatever your image name or id is, and whatever you want to call the file.

Gerry

[Klaus]

Hi guys,

I heard that some user have problems setting the default folder on iOS.
So it is a better idea to supply the complete filepath:
...
put image "test" into URL ("binfile:" & specialfolderpath("documents") & "/name of image here.jpg")
...

Best

Klaus

[SteveHanlan]

Gerry - That worked. It was the 'binfile' that I missed - Doh!

Klaus - Good advice

Thanks to all
Steve