Visual Basic 6.0
Visual Basic 6.0
Add a Related Item from a BinData Object
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Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.AddRelatedBd method, which adds a related item (such as an inline image) using the contents of a BinData object, and returns the generated Content-ID. This example loads an image into a BinData, adds it, captures the Content-ID, and references it from the HTML body.
Background: This is the binary,
Content-ID-based way to embed an inline resource — the right choice for images, whose bytes belong in a BinData rather than a string. Because Chilkat generates the Content-ID, the usual pattern is: add the item first, capture the returned ID, then build the matching <img src="cid:..."> reference from it (done here with a StringBuilder).Chilkat Visual Basic 6.0 Downloads
Dim success As Long
success = 0
' Demonstrates the AddRelatedBd method, which adds a related item (such as an inline image)
' using the contents of a BinData object, and returns the generated Content-ID.
Dim email As New ChilkatEmail
email.Subject = "Related image from BinData"
' Load the image data from a file into a BinData object.
Dim bdImage As New ChilkatBinData
success = bdImage.LoadFile("qa_data/images/logo.png")
If (success = 0) Then
Debug.Print bdImage.LastErrorText
Exit Sub
End If
' Add the image as a related item; capture its generated Content-ID.
Dim cid As String
cid = email.AddRelatedBd("logo.png",bdImage)
If (email.LastMethodSuccess = 0) Then
Debug.Print email.LastErrorText
Exit Sub
End If
' Reference the related item in the HTML body by its Content-ID.
Dim sbHtml As New ChilkatStringBuilder
success = sbHtml.Append("<html><body><img src=""cid:PLACEHOLDER_CID""/></body></html>")
Dim numReplaced As Long
numReplaced = sbHtml.Replace("PLACEHOLDER_CID",cid)
email.SetHtmlBody sbHtml.GetAsString()
Debug.Print "NumRelatedItems = " & email.NumRelatedItems
' Note: The path "qa_data/images/logo.png" is a relative local filesystem path,
' relative to the current working directory of the running application.