Kirk Gordon wrote:
> Greetings, all!
>
>     I've found some amazing skills, and some welcome help, in this
> group in the past.  I'm hoping some kind soul can spare a moment to
> rescue me from my most recent problem.  I'm using VB6 Professional
> Edition.
>
>     I'm working on an application that collects real time image data
> from a digital camera; and I need to display the images in a
> PictureBox control.  I have a whole library of packaged API functions
> - provided by the camera manufacturer - that grab the data from the
> camera interface, convert it into bitmap format, and store it in a
> byte array called BitMapData.  This all works perfectly, even for me.
> The code examples I have from the camera manufacturer will write the
> array data to a file:
>
>      Open strFile For Binary Access Write As #1
>      Put #1, , BitmapData()
>      Close #1
>
>     I can store the data this way, and then use LoadPicture to get the
> image into a picture box.  That works great.  But I need to move the
> data quickly - as many frames per second as I can.  So I'd rather not
> be running to and from the hard drive constantly.
>
>     I figure there must be a way to move the data directly from the
> array to the picture; but I can't figure out how.
>
>     Thanks in advance for help, sources, or suggestions.
>
> Kirk Gordon
> __
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> The 2 in my address doesn't belong there.

Load a picture from a byte array:

http://www.mvps.org/emorcillo/vb6/multimedia/picturefromarray.shtml

HTH




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