//e.row.pict is the BLOB of the selected row in the database

var blob=e.row.pict;

logoimage = Titanium.UI.createImageView({
    image:blob,
    height:60,
    width:80,
    left:10,
    top:10

    });

4 Answers

• Hello, I have exactly the same issue, here is my code:

  var authorAvatar = Ti.UI.createImageView({});
  win.add(authorAvatar);
  var base64img = 'bla-bla-bla'; //put here any base64 image string for test
  var imageBlob = Ti.Utils.base64decode(base64img);
  authorAvatar.image = imageBlob;
  

  it shows up nothing. if I call authorAvatar.image = '/images/test.png' it appears fine.

  I also tried to save Blob as temp file like that:

  var authorAvatar = Ti.UI.createImageView({});
  win.add(authorAvatar);
  var base64img = 'bla-bla-bla'; //put here any base64 image string for test
  var imageBlob = Ti.Utils.base64decode(base64img );
  var file = Titanium.Filesystem.createTempFile(Titanium.Filesystem.resourcesDirectory);
  file.write(imageBlob);
  authorAvatar.image = file.nativePath;
  

  No results, no warning and errors on debugging console, no picture. Reproduced on Android platform. Any ideas?
  Thx a lot for your help

• Is this question still not answered?

  You might try to save that BLOB to a temporary file and use that file in your image view. :)

  Here's how I did it with the toImage()-function.

    var theMap = win1.toImage();
    var file = Titanium.Filesystem.createTempFile(Titanium.Filesystem.resourcesDirectory);
    Ti.API.info('size = ' + file.size);
    file.write(theMap);
  

  Then you can use file.nativePath :-)

• I was thinking to that too this week. I wasn't sure if this was a correct practice performance wise ? Anyone tried it enough to tell it is a bad idea ? In fact, I think it is a bad practice…but didn't tried it yet !

• I am trying to do this as well but unclear on how to save the BLOB to a temporary file. Given the example where blob = e.row.pict would you just put that in the file.write->file.write(e.row.pict)? Or do you need to create a window, or view and add the e.row.pict to that somehow (how?) so you can call the toImage() method before writing it to the temporary file?