Using X++ code display an image from Resources in a grid Forms or Reports control

Axapta provides a very handy feature to allow developers to ship their solution with Axapta built-in image files. In Application Object Tree, you can find resources node. Select resources node and right click; select Create from File, specify the file location for the new resource file. After that you can use this resource file in Axapta without specifying an absolute file path in your hard disk. Then let’s see how to use this kind of files in Axapta. First, pick up the resource node from AOT;

SysResource::getResourceNode(); 

Then generate a temporary file for this resource file;

SysResource::saveToTempFile();

 

Finally specify the temporary file path for controls. Here comes an example to show how to use a resource file as a background image of  a given form. If you don't want to indicate the path to display an imge in a grid you can use : Resources in the AOT and call your image as following :

public display FilePath ShowMyResource()
{
    #AOT
    ResourceNode resourceNode;
    FilePath filePathLogo;
;
    resourceNode = SysResource::getResourceNode('NameOfTheResource');
    if (resourceNode)
    {
        resourceNode.AOTload();
        filePathLogo =  SysResource::saveToTempFile(resourceNode);
    }
    return filePathLogo;
}

Otherwise, you can use this 

display Bitmap bitmap()
{
    Bitmap bitmap;
    Bindata     binData = new BinData();
;
    if (binData.loadFile('c:\\1.bmp'))
        bitmap = binData.getData();
    return bitmap;
}

display Bitmap loadImage()
{
    ResourceNode    resourceNode;
    Container       imageContainer;
    Image           image;
;
    resourceNode    = SysResource::getResourceNode(ResourceStr(ResourceName));
    resourceNode.AOTload();
    imageContainer  = SysResource::getResourceNodeData(resourceNode);
    image           = new Image(imageContainer);

    return image.getData();
}

Container to temporary files path

void showItemPicture(InventstdPic _InventstdPic)
{
    Image               Image     = new Image();
    BinData             BinData   = new BinData();
    container           PicCon;
    real                PicRate;
    filePath            filePath;
    int                 height,width,FixLen;
    name                labelStr;
    #WinAPI
/*
//Filename method uder the InventstdPic table
display Filename Filename(FilePath path = '')
{
    str endSlash(str _str)
    {
        return (strscan(_str, '\\',strlen(_str),-1)) ? _str : _str + '\\';
    }
    ;
    if (!this.PicsName)
    {
        return '';
    }

    return endSlash(path) + this.PicsName + this.PicsExtension;
}
*/
    
;
    FixLen    = 205;
    filePath  = WinAPI::getFolderPath(#CSIDL_INTERNET_CACHE);
    filePath  = _InventstdPic.Filename(filePath);
    PicCon    = _InventStdPic.Images;

    Image.setData(PicCon);
    height    = Image.height();
    width     = Image.width();

    BinData.setData(PicCon);
    BinData.saveFile(filePath);

    if (height > FixLen || width > FixLen)
    {
        if (height > width)
             PicRate = FixLen / height;
        else
             PicRate = FixLen / width;
    }

    ItemImage.width( width  * PicRate, Units::mm);
    ItemImage.height(height * PicRate, Units::mm);
    if(_InventStdPic.ConfigId)
        labelStr = _InventStdPic.ItemId + " (" + _InventStdPic.ConfigId + ")";
    else
        labelStr = _InventStdPic.ItemId;
    ItemImage.label(labelStr);
    //ItemImage.showPicAsText(Noyes::Yes);
    ItemImage.showLabel(Noyes::Yes);
    ItemImage.imageName(filePath);
}