Re: how to download and save transparent png file

From:
"Steve W. Jackson" <stevewjackson@charter.net>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Tue, 02 May 2006 15:40:55 -0500
Message-ID:
<stevewjackson-6A3B82.15405502052006@individual.net>
In article <4457bf8d$0$1105$626a54ce@news.free.fr>,
 Alex <compuhelp@free.fr> wrote:

Hi all,

I'm trying to download and to save a transparent png file.
I succeed to download and save it, but in losing the transparent
background!

My source code is:
String url = "http://..../test.png";
URLConnection connection = new URL(url).openConnection();
Image image =
Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().createImage((ImageProducer)connection.getContent()
);
ImageIO.write(toBufferedImage(image), extension, new
File(filename).getCanonicalFile());

with the function:

     private BufferedImage toBufferedImage(Image image) {
         if( image instanceof BufferedImage ) {
             return ((BufferedImage)image);
         } else {
             image = new ImageIcon(image).getImage();
             BufferedImage bufferedImage = new
BufferedImage(image.getWidth(null), image.getHeight(null),
BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB );
             Graphics g = bufferedImage.createGraphics();
             g.drawImage(image,0,0,null);
             g.dispose();
             return (bufferedImage);
         }
     }

If someone have an idea for me?

(Is it possible to download and to save the getcontent() directly to a
file without transform it into Image?)

Thanks


Since URLConnection includes a getInputStream method that returns an
input stream for reading from the connection, it seems logical that you
might test whether you can simply read byte-by-byte and then just write
the result to a local file via an output stream.

= Steve =
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