Can Roku generate a JPG or PNG file?
Let me start with the premise of using roGridScreen and wanting to show text within each "poster" for the categories/items. SDPosterUrl/HDPosterUrl properties for each item instead expect URL to an im...
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"RokuJoel" wrote:
No, just that there is no (fast) way to reverse the process of converting a byte array to a bitmap... at least that is my understanding.
Well there is the constructor CreateObject("roBitmap", String filename) that can load files. But this reverse process does not concern me, since it does not relate to my case.
"RokuJoel" wrote:
The request is already in the system, just followed up, the more really useful use-cases for this sort of thing there are, the higher likelihood of it actually happening.
For my case any of the two things will do: a) ability to overlay text on top (or instead) of poster image background or b) ability to save bitmaps to PNG/JPG (or whatever pleases poster screens). In my particular scenario this is to browse file system but i suppose others can chime in with other cases when it was needed.
