Putting an image into a custom property and then retrieving it.

[richmond62]

It's the 'Richmond goes gyte in the summer' section, again, again, again . . .

You have been warned: tune out all those for whom this is strong meat.

So, for no obvious good reason at all (that's a lie, and you can work out what the reason is)
I decided to pop an image into a custom property of a graphic object like this:

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on mouseUp
   set the P1 of grc "holder" to img "BFF"
end mouseUp

Here's the image:
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BFF

Baby_Face__Finlayson.jpg (41.88 KiB) Viewed 2042 times

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So; that seems all very straightforward:
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BUT, the big and burning Q is how to retrieve that image later on . . .

I tried this:

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put the imageData of the P1 of grc "holder" into tDATA
   set the imageData of img "XPIK" to tDATA
end mouseUp

and got a 'right bluey'.

Ultimately my idea is that is might be more convenient to store images as customproperties than as images qua images
in a stack.

[bn]

Richmond,

try

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on mouseUp
   put  the P1 of grc "holder" into tDATA
   set the text of img "XPIK" to tDATA
end mouseUp

Kind regards
Bernd

[SparkOut]

I'm not sure that it's any more convenient to store an image in a stack as a custom property rather than, er... an image, but having stored the image in the P1 custom property you can display that binary data by setting the, er... text of the destination image object.

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set the text of img "XPIK" to the P1 of grc "holder" 

[edit]and so I get outklaussed by Bernd this time! [/edit]

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You could of course store the imageData in the first place

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set the P1 of grc "holder" to the imageData of img "BFF"

and then retrieve by

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set the imageData of img "XPIK" to the P1 of grc "holder"

Either way, you will have to be conscious of the size and position of the destination image after it has been filled, and then maybe move or resize accordingly
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[richmond62]

You're the man, Bernd: Thank you so much.
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https://www.dropbox.com/s/wb0z1gqyl809u ... e.zip?dl=0