I need to be able to save a picture from a VB 5.0 picture box without
the use of a commondialog box.  If I try saving the jpg picture using the
SavePicture method, it saves it as a bmp picture.  Is there a way using code
to save a picture from a picture box in a jpg format.

Thanks

Doc

23:28:55 -0400):

Although not positive, I hope this reply serves you.

Mathias Schiffer, Germany
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Schiffer) wrote (Thu, 25 Sep 1997 18:46:47 GMT):

You can get a freeware-component that allows you to display
a lot of graphic formats and even to save them as well.
Especially relating to JPG, a small workaround (provided in
the documentation) is neccessary, but nevertheless it is
obviously feasible (I am sorry I cannot report personal
experiences as I never used this tool):

http://einstein.ae.eng.ua.edu/nishita/Software/NViewLib1.1.5.Zip

I hope this is the current version. If not, shorten the path
accordingly and you'll find what you need.

Hope this helps.

Mathias Schiffer, Germany
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Mathias is right - although I have seen the source code for JPEG
compression in C posted in some of the Graphics groups, I wouldn't
want to do it in VB (even though I'm running a 266 PII I suspect it'd
be pretty slow)
I'd try to cadge a copy of Imageman or Imageknife OCX off somebody (no
sadly I don't own either) as they have pretty good file conversion
routines (as used by Visio for example).

Of course one might be able to do some OLE automation to Microsoft's
Image Editor or somtehing - don't know, i'll have to look into that
one...