Workspace Class

The Workspace object, part of the Atalasoft.Imaging namespace, provides a container that allows for intuitive image processing and management of AtalaImage and ImageCollection objects. The Workspace can be used to manage changes to AtalaImage objects and access methods to open, save, and manipulate images.

Many image processing functions may create new AtalaImage objects. The Workspace manages the creation of these objects by keeping a single current image and providing events when the image changes. The Workspace also disposes of old images when they are no longer needed. You can access the current AtalaImage with the Image property of the Workspace object.

The Workspace is designed to operate either synchronously or asynchronously for multi-threading operations. This behavior is set by the Asynchronous property.

See the WinForm's WorkspaceViewer for a Workspace object with a user interface for displaying images.

This example demonstrates how to create a new workspace, open an image, resample it, then save it to a file.

Workspace myWorkspace = new Workspace();
myWorkspace.Open("image.png");
myWorkspace.ApplyCommand(new ResampleCommand((int)(myWorkspace.Width / 2), (int)(myWorkspace.Height / 2)));
myWorkspace.Save("newImage.png", new PngEncoder());
myWorkspace.Dispose();

Dim myWorkspace As Workspace = New Workspace()
myWorkspace.Open("image.png")
myWorkspace.ApplyCommand(New ResampleCommand(myWorkspace.Width / 2, myWorkspace.Height / 2))
myWorkspace.Save("newImage.png", New PngEncoder())
myWorkspace.Dispose()

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