cheers, did not know that about Drawables will use Bitmaps then.
Thanks,
Greg.
On Mar 25, 3:23 pm, Streets Of Boston <flyingdutc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This Uri is the logical (not physical) path used by the image content
> provider.
> If you want to get the physical path to the actual file on the SD-
> card, query this Uri:
>
> Cursor cursor = query(photoUri, new String[]
> {MediaStore.Images.ImageColumns.DATA}, null, null, null);
> String absoluteFilePath = cursor.getString(0);
>
> Now, absoluteFilePath is the physical path to your image, which you
> can use in Drawable.createFromPath
>
> Question: Why don't you create a Bitmap instead?
>
> ...
> InputStream is = getContentResolver().openInputStream(photoUri);
> Bitmap bm = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(is);
> ...
> is.close();
>
> I ask this, because it is safer to cache Bitmaps instead of Drawables.
> If you cache Drawables, you run the risk of memory leaks. Drawables
> have handles to your activity and when your activity gets destroyed
> while your Drawables are still cached, your activiy will never be
> garbage collected --> memory leak.
> Bitmaps don't have this problem. They are basically byte-arrays with
> some behavior :).
>
> On Mar 25, 3:15 am, beachy <beachy.g...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > In some code I call this;
> > Intent photoPickerIntent = new
> > Intent
> > (Intent.ACTION_PICK);
> > photoPickerIntent.setType("image/*");
> >
> > startActivityForResult(photoPickerIntent,
> > 1);
>
> > then implement this method....
>
> > protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode,
> > Intent intent)
> > {
> > super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, intent);
>
> > if (resultCode == RESULT_OK)
> > {
> > Uri photoUri = intent.getData();
> > Log.d(TAG, "should be adding a photo");
> > if (photoUri != null)
> > {
>
> > Log.d(TAG, "photo uri is not blank");
> > // do something with the content Uri
> > //TODO figure out why this does not work!!
> > Log.d(TAG, "the photo URI is " +
> > photoUri.getPath());
> > Drawable thePic = Drawable.createFromPath
> > (photoUri.getPath());
> > //thePic is Null
> > if(thePic != null){
> > Log.d(TAG, "the pic has loaded");
> > myRecipe.addPic(thePic);
> > ((RecipeAdapter)myListView.getAdapter
> > ()).notifyDataSetChanged();
>
> > }
> > }
> > }
> > }
>
> > trying to get a image and load it in to a drawable object. The Uri
> > that is returned seems logical
>
> > 03-25 08:12:58.554: DEBUG/ConvertScaleScreen(174): the photo URI is /
> > external/images/media/1
>
> > but when i start up a shell with adb the file location or even the
> > root drive does not exitst, am I missing something here? should the be
> > a symbolic link on the file system?
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