Unlock task image files

[Old Dog]

Hi sub,

I was updating Appearance Manager to allow selection of task images when I discovered that GBPVR.exe has blocked access to the task image files.

Can these files be unblocked?

Regards,
David

[sub]

Most people load images using the Image.FromFile() .net API which locks the files. It would have to be changed by every developer in every plugin.

[Old Dog]

Okay. I personally don't see this as a high priority feature (I've been putting it off).

Thanks,
David

[gruskada]

Most people load images using the Image.FromFile() .net API which locks the files. It would have to be changed by every developer in every plugin.

Is there a better way to do it?

gruskada

[sub]

In most cases locking the file it fine, so it may not be "better", but you can do the following to load an image without locking it:

Code:

FileStream fs;                        
fs = new FileStream(filename, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read);
Image tempImage = System.Drawing.Image.FromStream(fs);
fs.Close();

[reven]

wouldnt this be a little bit better

Code:

Image img = null;
using(FileStream fs = new FileStream(filename, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read)){
      img = System.Drawing.Image.FromStream(fs);
}

i read somewhere that you should use "using" whenever you can, .net will handle all the clean up better. or so i read, somewhere.

[sub]

Each to their own. There is nothing wrong with the code I wrote above. I'm from the world of C++, so I write code that looks very C++'esq.

[gruskada]

wouldnt this be a little bit better

Code:

Image img = null;
using(FileStream fs = new FileStream(filename, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read)){
      img = System.Drawing.Image.FromStream(fs);
}

i read somewhere that you should use "using" whenever you can, .net will handle all the clean up better. or so i read, somewhere.

I think the only real difference is that you don't need to explicitly call close() with using (which people may forget to do otherwise), but I could be wrong.

gruskada