Filter Plug-In get image file name

Hi Mihai,

I had the same problem but I didn't added any other comments on the forum post.

Anyhow I know that I've lost a lot of time and I was just able to minimize the problem and not to remove it. I got lost in string/char function and I finally I quited - it was not that important for me. I think the problem is realted with the char variables, and using the line  sFileName =  (char*)(*hFileName);  it stores in sFileName just the reference and don't make a copy of what was read in with getPropertyProc().

Because I've was nervos and I was not able to use some CString functions (because is not MFC) I used a dirty way of minimizing the problem:

char *RemoveNoValidChar(char *Input)
{
    int index = 0;
    for (int i=0; i<strlen(Input); i++)
    {
        if (Input >= 32 && Input<=126)
            index++;
    }

    char *Output = new char [index+1];
    strncpy(Output, Input, index);
    Output[index] = '\0';
    return Output;
}

void MainFunction()

{

   ...............

    hFileName = gFilterRecord->handleProcs->newProc(100);

    (*hFileName) = "";
    propSuite->getPropertyProc('8BIM', 'titl', 0, nil, &hFileName);
    gData->sFileName = RemoveNoValidChar((char*)(*hFileName));
    gFilterRecord->handleProcs->disposeProc(hFileName);

   ....................

}

If you find a real solution for it please share it, I'm really curious how this problem can be solved.

If you have some other questions please feel free to ask.

Regards,

Paul T.

I don't have an example handy at the moment (don't know all the current SDK code, either).

But most of the properties should be documented in the SDK.