[onej]

Hi!

I'm develompin BlackBerry application for stock values. I'we alredy have server and my blacbkerry connected to this server over socket connection

connection to server:
private String URL = "socket://localhost:64208;deviceside=true";
connection = (StreamConnection)Connector.open(URL);
_out = new OutputStreamWriter(connection.openOutputStream());
_in = new InputStreamReader(connection.openInputStream());

Connection is working fine (sending strings to server and back).
Now i want to display stock value chart on blackberry. I generate chart image on my server (BufferedImage) (can allso generate other type of image if i want) so now i wonder how to send image from server to blackberry usnig my stream connection and display this image on blackberry (BitmapField component).

It would be nice if someone gave me example how to do this.

ty!
Kristjan

[onej]

after days of work i finaly made it
here is tehe code:

Server side

//  pout is print writer...
Socket s = ss.accept();
OutputStream os = s.getOutputStream();
PrintWriter pout = new PrintWriter(os, true);
//


// this is our buffered image
BufferedImage slika;
                                     
ByteArrayOutputStream bas = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
ImageIO.write(slika,"JPEG", bas); // write image into ByteArrayOutputStream
byte[] data = bas.toByteArray();
pout.println(String.valueOf(data.length));  // sending image length to blackberry
os.write(data, 0, data.length); // sending image to blackberry
os.flush();

Code on blackberry:

//
InputStream is
//

// get image size from server
String answer3 = "";
char k3;
do
{
    k3 = (char) _in.read();
    answer3 = answer3+ String.valueOf(k3);
}while(k3 != '\n');

int velikost = Integer.parseInt(answer3.toString());

byte[] data = new byte[velikost];
is.read(data, 0, velikost);   // read image             

EncodedImage image = EncodedImage.createEncodedImage(data,0,data.length);
Bitmap b = image.getBitmap();
BitmapField picture = new BitmapField(b);

mainScreen.add(picture); // adding picture to main screen

[mikeaug]

Hi i too tried receiving image from server using sockets am getting the image using ur code, but the transfer speed is too slow. A 10kb image is taking around 40 seconds. Is this a normal socket speed? If not is there anyways to improve the data transfer speed. (Am using InputStreamReader and its read() method is wat s taking time). I now need to tranfer 2Mb data which at this speed would be highly impossible.

Thanks & regards
Mike.