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