Dan, Larry and Mike, Thank you, now I understand. Since I'll have to create a file and then delete it, I have another question. I can ERASE .VFILE, ERASE &VFILE, DELETE .VFILE and DELETE &VFILE at the R> prompt but not in a command file... Is that normal?
Claudine -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of MikeB Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2008 3:20 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Working with stored images The VarBit is just the memory placeholder for the binary data. To make it a (Disk)file, you need to write it to disk then reference its' disk location to your app. Further, you could show an image in the R Window (in 6.5++)(tested) using the syntax shown in the HelpFile by giving it a size and a locationusing the 'AT' specifier to set ScrRow and ScrCol like: sho var vimg = 640,320 at 10,10 But in 7.6, I get the same result as you do. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Claudine Robbins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2008 3:55 PM Subject: [RBASE-L] - Working with stored images I have: SET VAR VIMAGE VARBIT = ['\IMAGENAME.JPG'] And successfully: UPDATE TABLENAME SET FIELD1 = .VIMAGE WHERE FIELD2 = 1 Now, in an email sending routine, I want to capture the file to attach to an email. So I've tried: SET VAR VGETIMAGE VARBIT = NULL SELECT FIELD1 INTO VGETIMAGE INDICATOR IV1 FROM TABLENAME WHERE FIELD2 = 1 And all I get is: SHOW VAR VGETIMAGE [JPG] What am I missing? Claudine
