Roku Developer Program

[geebs]

New at brightscript.

using this variable:
myimage = "http://192.168.1.100/images/bigimage.jpg"

i just need a way to test if the file exists or not.

something like
result = doesFileExists(myimage)

result can be boolean true/false, or better if the file exists, result holds the URL, otherwise result is null.

Any help? I'm struggling with the docs and cant find any examples. Thanks.

[RokuMarkn]

Maybe I'm not understanding what you're trying to do, but can't you just try to download the URL? If it succeeds you'll have the contents, if the file doesn't exist you'll get a 404 error.

--Mark

[destruk]

yeah, you could have a script on the server to query if the file exists and return a boolean value, or use rourltransfer to check for a 200 (OK) html response, or download the file to tmp:// on the roku.

[geebs]

I got the intended results using rourltransfer to check for a 200 (OK) html response. and that works, however I think a better way would be to download my image to tmp:// and then test if portrait or landscape, setting X Y coords accordingly.

my way is not a pretty hack for deciding if portrait or landscape, but I understand that theres a component that can do it but only to local image files.
Even then I tried but cant find any good examples.

any good examples how to check whether a local image is portrait or landscape?

[TheEndless]

"geebs" wrote:
any good examples how to check whether a local image is portrait or landscape?

This assumes you're really only interested in knowing which dimension is greater, but...

Function IsLandscape(imagePath As String) As Boolean
    bitmap = CreateObject("roBitmap", imagePath)
    If bitmap <> invalid Then
        Return bitmap.GetWidth() > bitmap.GetHeight()
    End If
    Return False
End Function

[geebs]

TheEndless,
Thanks for the function. I didn't notice GetWidth() & GetHeight() was available. That'll work wonderfully.