8. Working with Images and Text Strings
 
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Working with Images and Text Strings
Overview
This chapter describes how to use images and text strings in an OpenROAD application.
The first section, How You Can Work with Images (see How You Can Work with Images), covers the following topics:
Using image fields, image trim, and palette fields
The BitmapObject class and how to use it to store images
The ImageField object and how to use it to display bitmap images
The second section, How You Can Work with Text Strings (see How You Can Work with Text Strings), includes the following topics:
Storing strings in files and in a database
Displaying strings from a database
Updating strings in a database
Deleting strings from a database
Creating a string storage table