Putting a picture into a Canvas from file path

[Julia_Truchsess]

Picture.FromData:
https://documentation.xojo.com/api/graphics/picture.html#picture-fromdata

Picture.ToData
https://documentation.xojo.com/api/graphics/picture.html#picture-todata

Converting an Image to Base64

Hi all, I have been reading up and trying to figure out how to convert an image to Base64. However, I’m a bit puzzled as to how I “should” accomplish this. I’ve read that the EncodeBase64 and DecodeBase64 methods accept a “string” … but they don’t specify anything about binary data. Can these methods accept binary data? From what I’ve read here in the forum, (as well as my Google searches), I am thinking that the following process “might” work?? Use a BinarySteam to open and read the imag…

String to Picture

I have a database with a String-type column which contains serialized data from a PNG. How do I construct a picture from this data? I tried: var MB as memoryblock var MyPicture as new Picture MB = MyRowSet.Column("PicData").ToString MyPicture.FromData(MB) But MB is empty. I tried to put the PicData in a String var first and read that into a MB but it fails.