Needing Help with the GFl-Active X ... basic stuff

[sonhospa]

Hello,

I'm trying to use the ActiveX Object enclosed with the GflSDK in Visual Basic 2008 (.NET), to which I have to admit I'm pretty new... so that I stay close to the helpfile anyway. But still: when I want to assign the object to a PictureBox on a form (:arrow: MyImage.LoadBitmap(fileToDisplay), then frmHead.pbox.Image = MyImage.GetPicture), VB throws an InvalidCastException: COM Object of type "System.__COMObject" can't be converted to class type "System.Drawing.Image".

In a frequented developers forum I got the following advice: "Your code is trying to convert an object of type GflAx to a .NET Image object. That's not going to work. The GflAx object has to expose some method to return an Image object." Having assumed the LoadBitmap and GetPicture methods would return an image object, I'm confused about what I'm doing now... what did I do wrong?

Would you please be so kind as to lead me out of the trap

Thank you so much,
regards
Michael

[minime]

i download the sdk today too and had the same problem.
u have to convert the IPicture format.

create this class :

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    Private NotInheritable Class myClass
        Inherits System.Windows.Forms.AxHost
        Public Shared Shadows Function GetPictureFromIPicture(ByVal picture As Object) As Image
            Return AxHost.GetPictureFromIPicture(picture)
        End Function
    End Class

use it like this :

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        Dim pic As Bitmap = MyClass.GetPictureFromIPicture(GflAxObj.GetPicture)

[sonhospa]

Thank you for your answer and the code snippet, minime!
I'll try it out asap. Have a nice weekend.