[MonoTouch] Load image from native library resources

[Dennis Welu]

Any tricks / is it possible to load an image in the Resources folder of a
bound native library? I have the native library, the bindings project, and
the application using it. From the application code I've tried various
things to load a png from the library resources. Is this a case where I
should be using UIImage.FromAssembly maybe? Can't seem to get
FromBundle/FromFile to work no matter what image name/path I try.



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Re: [MonoTouch] Load image from native library resources

[Nic Wise]

If you build the app, and look inside the .app folder/file, whats in
there? a folder called "Resources" with your files?

If so, just do UIImage.FromFile("Resources/whatever.png");

:)

On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 2:53 PM, Dennis Welu
 wrote:
> Any tricks / is it possible to load an image in the Resources folder of a
> bound native library? I have the native library, the bindings project, and
> the application using it. From the application code I've tried various
> things to load a png from the library resources. Is this a case where I
> should be using UIImage.FromAssembly maybe? Can't seem to get
> FromBundle/FromFile to work no matter what image name/path I try.
>
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Re: [MonoTouch] Load image from native library resources

[Craig Dunn]

I think they'll be in the 'root' file location of the App Bundle? If the
library has them in a folder-structure, then the folder structure will be
preserved, based in the App Bundle root...


On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 8:22 AM, Nic Wise  wrote:

> If you build the app, and look inside the .app folder/file, whats in
> there? a folder called "Resources" with your files?
>
> If so, just do UIImage.FromFile("Resources/whatever.png");
>
> :)
>
> On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 2:53 PM, Dennis Welu
>  wrote:
> > Any tricks / is it possible to load an image in the Resources folder of a
> > bound native library? I have the native library, the bindings project,
> and
> > the application using it. From the application code I've tried various
> > things to load a png from the library resources. Is this a case where I
> > should be using UIImage.FromAssembly maybe? Can't seem to get
> > FromBundle/FromFile to work no matter what image name/path I try.
> >
> >
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Re: [MonoTouch] Load image from native library resources

[Dennis Welu]

THanks guys. I was thinking along similar ways and had looked in the bundle
hoping to find the images in there somewhere. Unfortunately I do not see
them - I just see the MT bindings dll. The native project has a Resources
child folder with the images in it. There is no Resources folder in my
bundle. I have tried:

UIImage.FromFile("filename.png");
UIImage.FromFile("Resources/filename.png");

And for grins:
UIImage.FromBundle("filename.png");
UIImage.FromBundle("Resources/filename.png");

but all return null. Would the images be embedded in the dll somehow? If so,
maybe can use FromAssembly? (which I have not tried yet). If not embedded in
the dll, and not visible in the bundle content, I'd assume they are just not
there.




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Re: [MonoTouch] Load image from native library resources

[Dennis Welu]

I meant FromResource (assembly, ...) not FromAssembly. :-)



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Re: [MonoTouch] Load image from native library resources

[Dennis Welu]

And that doesn't work either. Ok I'm done spamming.



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Re: [MonoTouch] Load image from native library resources

[Jeff Stedfast]

Hi Dennis,

I'm a bit confused about your question...

When you build your app bundle, where do the files end up? You can poke
around in the appropriate bin directory.

MonoTouch Binding Projects embed files marked as Content or BundleResource
into the dll (temporarily) for ease of sharing the resulting assembly, but
the main app project extracts them into their appropriate location when
generating the app bundle.

Hopefully that clears things up and helps you figure out where they went.

Jeff

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Re: [MonoTouch] Load image from native library resources

[Dennis Welu]

I see what you're saying and that's good information, Jeff, thanks for that.
So I am concluding that the resources are not even making it into the
bindings dll since I'm not seeing them in the resulting app bundle. I used
the lipo command to combine multiple native architecture builds into a
single lib.a file for the binding project to use. Is there something maybe I
need to do different in the process of building the native library or using
'lipo' perhaps?



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Re: [MonoTouch] Load image from native library resources

[Jeff Stedfast]

Hi Dennis,

Ah. I think I see the misunderstanding.

When you build a native library, the Xcode/gcc/whatever does not
(necessarily) embed the library's resources - the resulting .a is just the
source code library.

What you'll need to do is add the native library's resource files to your
MonoTouch Binding Project and set their BuildAction to BundleResource.

Jeff

On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Dennis Welu  wrote:

> I see what you're saying and that's good information, Jeff, thanks for
> that.
> So I am concluding that the resources are not even making it into the
> bindings dll since I'm not seeing them in the resulting app bundle. I used
> the lipo command to combine multiple native architecture builds into a
> single lib.a file for the binding project to use. Is there something maybe
> I
> need to do different in the process of building the native library or using
> 'lipo' perhaps?
>
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Re: [MonoTouch] Load image from native library resources

[Dennis Welu]

Gotcha. Yup that makes complete sense. Thanks for the help!



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Re: [MonoTouch] Load image from native library resources

[Dennis Welu]

For the record, the build action I had to set to EmbeddedResource, as
BundleResource was not available... (it's available for png's in the main
project but not the bindings project), and then load the resource via its ID
like:

MyImage =  UIImage.FromResource(typeof(SomeTypeInBindingAssembly).Assembly,
"MyBindingNamespace.Images.filename.png");

I tried also setting build action to Content to see if I could get the
resources to show up as just content in the final bundle but did not get
that to happen. But this will work for me.



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Re: [MonoTouch] Load image from native library resources

[Jeff Stedfast]

Perhaps the BundleResource and Content options only work in MonoDevelop
3.1.0?

Jeff

On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Dennis Welu  wrote:

> For the record, the build action I had to set to EmbeddedResource, as
> BundleResource was not available... (it's available for png's in the main
> project but not the bindings project), and then load the resource via its
> ID
> like:
>
> MyImage =  UIImage.FromResource(typeof(SomeTypeInBindingAssembly).Assembly,
> "MyBindingNamespace.Images.filename.png");
>
> I tried also setting build action to Content to see if I could get the
> resources to show up as just content in the final bundle but did not get
> that to happen. But this will work for me.
>
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Re: [MonoTouch] Load image from native library resources

[James Darbyshire]

Shameless plug, but here is a blog post I wrote about resources in MT:

http://macropus.net/blog/2012/05/12/resources-in-monotouch-assembly/

Regards,

James

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For the record, the build action I had to set to EmbeddedResource, as
BundleResource was not available... (it's available for png's in the main
project but not the bindings project), and then load the resource via its ID
like:

MyImage =  UIImage.FromResource(typeof(SomeTypeInBindingAssembly).Assembly,
"MyBindingNamespace.Images.filename.png");

I tried also setting build action to Content to see if I could get the
resources to show up as just content in the final bundle but did not get
that to happen. But this will work for me.



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Re: [MonoTouch] Load image from native library resources

[Dennis Welu]

Hi James, its a good suggestion. I've thought about doing something similar
before because I miss the "Resources.*" or "R.*" strongly typed classes that
get auto-generated on other platforms. There may be something that folks are
plugging in for auto-gen already, but at least your point of hiding it
behind the static  class makes consuming code more readable and easier to
update and provides flexible options for managing the resource, which I
like. On this project I actually created a "Res" class to deal with strings
in a x-platform way (w/o going to the extents of  Vernacular
  ) so it wouldn't be a stretch to do
images (although the image files themselves tend to be created differently
across platforms of course due to screen sizes etc.).

@Jeff - Not sure about the 3.1.0 of MonoDevelop...am running 3.0.5
currently. Would be interesting to know.

Thanks all!





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