I need to program a button to save a graph, generated with my software, as an image. I looked around and I've found Chart.SaveImage
command, so I programmed the abovementioned button as follows:
Private Sub Button6_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Button6.Click
SaveFileDialog2.Filter = "PNG Image (*.png*)|*.png|JPEG Image (*.jpg*)|*.jpg|Bitmap Image (*.bmp*)|*.bmp|TIFF Image (*.tiff*)|*.tiff"
Select Case Path.GetExtension(SaveFileDialog2.FileName)
Case ".png"
Chart1.SaveImage(SaveFileDialog2.FileName, ChartImageFormat.Png)
Case ".jpg"
Chart1.SaveImage(SaveFileDialog2.FileName, ChartImageFormat.Jpeg)
Case ".bmp"
Chart1.SaveImage(SaveFileDialog2.FileName, ChartImageFormat.Bmp)
Case ".tiff"
Chart1.SaveImage(SaveFileDialog2.FileName, ChartImageFormat.Tiff)
End Select
End Sub
While debugging, when I press the button, it seems that it hasn't been programmed because at the pressure nothing seems to happen. What I need, as you can understand from my code, is that a SaveFile Dialog appears and I can choose where to save the image and its name and format. Thanks for any answers or comments. Best regards.
Use as follows:
You forgot to call SaveFileDialog2.ShowDialog
. So without showing SaveFileDialog
window that allows you to chose a path nothing happens.
Private Sub Button6_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Button6.Click
SaveFileDialog2.Filter = "PNG Image (*.png*)|*.png|JPEG Image (*.jpg*)|*.jpg|Bitmap Image (*.bmp*)|*.bmp|TIFF Image (*.tiff*)|*.tiff"
If SaveFileDialog2.ShowDialog = DialogResult.OK Then
Select Case Path.GetExtension(SaveFileDialog2.FileName)
Case ".png"
Chart1.SaveImage(SaveFileDialog2.FileName, ChartImageFormat.Png)
Case ".jpg"
Chart1.SaveImage(SaveFileDialog2.FileName, ChartImageFormat.Jpeg)
Case ".bmp"
Chart1.SaveImage(SaveFileDialog2.FileName, ChartImageFormat.Bmp)
Case ".tiff"
Chart1.SaveImage(SaveFileDialog2.FileName, ChartImageFormat.Tiff)
End Select
End If
End Sub