SavePicture

Saves a graphic from a Picture or Image to a file.

Syntax:

SavePicture picture , stringexpression

picture: A Picture (e.g. stdole.StdPicture) or Image from which the graphic will be saved. Typically the Picture property of a control such as a PictureBox or Image, or the result of a LoadPicture call.
stringexpression: String expression specifying the path of the file to write.

If the picture originally came from a file (loaded with LoadPicture), the file is written in the same format as the original. If picture was created or modified at runtime (for example, by drawing into a PictureBox), the file is saved as a bitmap (.bmp).

Note

SavePicture is a legacy VB6/VBx statement preserved in twinBASIC for source compatibility. New code that needs more control over output format (PNG, JPEG, format options) should use the platform’s imaging APIs directly or convert via PictureToByteArray and write the bytes through standard file I/O.

Example

' Save the graphic currently displayed in Picture1 to disk.
SavePicture Picture1.Picture, "C:\Temp\Snapshot.bmp"

' Round-trip an image through a Picture object.
Dim P As StdPicture
Set P = LoadPicture("C:\Temp\Original.png")
SavePicture P, "C:\Temp\Copy.bmp"   ' Always saved as BMP if not loaded from file.

SavePicture

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