i've come a bit furter, but the problem is that the PImage isn't any fileformat from start, just a PImage, so when i convert that info to binary, i don't get an image, just a file with the binaryinformation to PImage..

anybody have any idea on this.. i would really like to be able to take a screenshot of the applet, and send it via mail..
the mail part is working fine, but i need to make the PImage into gif, or jpg without having to save it first.

is there a way to do that?

-seltar

The Alpha board still didn't work yesterday, so i copied the htmlcode, made a new file, and changed the <form action="http://processing.blabla to as.processing.blabla, and that works fine now..
so i can search with my little html file , but i couldn't find anything about converting a PImage to a gif or jpg String.. unfortunately..
so if anybody has any ideas, i'd be really happy

-seltar

this is what i ended up with:

Code:

import com.sun.image.codec.jpeg.*;

ByteArrayOutputStream bufferImage(){
  ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
  BufferedImage img = new BufferedImage(width, height, 2);
  img = (BufferedImage)createImage(width, height);
  loadPixels();
  for(int i = 0; i < width; i++)
  {
    for(int j = 0; j < height; j++)
    {
	int id = j*width+i;
	img.setRGB(i,j, pixels[id]); 
    }
  }
  try{
    JPEGImageEncoder encoder = JPEGCodec.createJPEGEncoder(out);
    encoder.encode(img);
  }
  catch(FileNotFoundException e){
    System.out.println(e);
  }
  catch(IOException ioe){
    System.out.println(ioe);
  }
  return out;
}

ByteArrayOutputstream b = bufferImage();
byte bytes[] = b.toByteArray();
 

ByteArrayOutputstream is reading to memory, instead of file (which applets aren't allowed to), so this way, i was able to save a jpg of the current screen to memory, which i then encoded with base64, and added as an attachment to an email..

-seltar