Overwriting picture

[jimday1982]

Hi, I have a program that lets the user open a picture and make changes to it, but when trying to save the picture, it says that the file is currently in use and cannot be saved. Is there any way around this? Thanks!

[Volte]

What are you using to open the picture?

[jimday1982]

The code we have for opening the picture is:

 

 

 

Private Sub btnPic_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnPic.Click
       'Open dialog box to import a picture

       With ofd
           .CheckFileExists = True
           .CheckPathExists = True
           .Filter = "Images|*.bmp;*.tiff;*.jpg;*.jpeg;*.png;"
           .Multiselect = False
           .ShowHelp = False
           .Title = "Select an Image"
       End With

       If ofd.ShowDialog() = DialogResult.OK Then

           Dim tmpBMP As New Bitmap(ofd.FileName)
           CoverPic.Image = tmpBMP
       End If


   End Sub

 

Thanks!

[PlausiblyDamp]

When you read in the picture are you closing the stream or leaving it open?

[jimday1982]

Ok, this is probably the problem. We are opening the picture by calling the location (c:\blah\blah.jpg) which is stored in a text file.

 

txtcoverpic.Text = objReader.ReadLine
           If txtcoverpic.Text  = "" Then
               CoverPic.Image = Image.FromFile(txtcoverpic.Text)
           End If

 

How do we go about closing the file so we can overwrite it? Thanks!