Enter the picture (location and file name) or driver. Then feed into “From file”. This creates a binary copy of the image. Take this data (copy Int32 Array or whatever the data shape is from the x terminal) and copy into the program that needs an imbedded image or driver. Then feed this data into a “To File” object at the beginning of the program (see below, remove the defalt input). This will create a copy of the image or driver in the current directory in which the program resides… -----Original Message----- From: Stan Bischof (Richard S) [mailto:rsb@soco.agilent.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 3:24 PM To: Boespflug, Matthew (GE, Research) Subject: RE[2]: [vrf] Pictures "Boespflug, Matthew \(GE, Research\)" wrote: > Stan, > > Thanks for the information, however, your skills are obviously far greater > than mine since I have no idea how to do what you just recommended. This > methods sounds very useful, I am especially attracted to the tip about > embedding the drivers. Would you be willing to offer a little more detail? > Thanks in advance. Sure. here's a simple procedure that will do what you need: (1) write yourself a small VEE program with two objects in it From File >>>>>>>> UInt8 Data Constant with control input READ BINARY x BYTE ARRAY:* for "default value" (2) execute this program once and the file you are pointing to will get read into the data constant as a byte array. This is for all practical purposes a copy of your picture. (3) Copy this data constant into the VEE program that needs an embedded picture. (4) at the start of your program feed this data constant ( your picture ) into a "To File" object with WRITE BINARY a BYTE this puts the picture out on disk at runtime so that you can reference it from your picture objcet. You can of course get fancy if you like and start adding enhancements that check for existence of files and select random names and so on- but above is the basic part. hopefully that will help Stan -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stan Bischof Agilent Technologies 707-577-3994 stan_bischof@agilent.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------