The Image API

Many GUI types managed by the Presentation Server support images in one form or another; some have background images, some have glyphs, some have image lists and so on. However, many of these images have properties of their own, and in most cases these image properties are common to all.

Because of this most Presentation Server types that support images expose them as intrinsic "sub-objects", thorough a model we refer to as the "Image API". The image object's lifetime is managed by the system and it cannot be programmatically destroyed from Basic+, but it can be manipulated by the Get/Set_Property and Exec_Method functions just like any other Presentation Server object.

The entire Image API is described in this section, but be aware that not all image objects support all of the API. For example, a PUSHBUTTON type does not support an "INDEX" property for its background image, and its SplitGlyph image doesn't support an ALIGN property: All such exceptions are documented in the relevant sections that describe each object type.