Sdl.MultiTerm.TMO.Interop.ITermbase has a method "AddBLOB"
It looks somewhat positive but I have not used it yet.

Good Luck To You

Hi Marco Holzer,

images are accessed per entry. Exporting them is very easy, importing a bit more complex: add the image itself to the termbase storage, and then add a field linking to it to the entry. Code is clearer than explanations, so here we go. This assumes your termbase has a multimedia field called "imageField" at the entry level, and you want to edit the entry with id 3

Sdl.MultiTerm.TMO.Interop.Application _mt;
TermbaseRepository _tr;
Termbase _tb;

public void runTests()
{
    int entryId = 3;
    Init(@"E:\_temp\media.sdltb");
    AddImageSample(entryId, "imageField", @"E:\_temp\p3.jpg");
    ExtractImageSample(entryId, @"E:\_temp", "mediaexport");
    Exit();
}

private void Init(string termbasePath)
{
    _mt = new Sdl.MultiTerm.TMO.Interop.Application();
    _tr = _mt.LocalRepository;
    _tr.Connect("", "");
    _tr.Termbases.Add(termbasePath, "", "");
    _tb = _tr.Termbases[termbasePath];
}

private void Exit()
{
    _tb.Close();
    _tr.Disconnect();
}

private void ExtractImageSample(int entryId, string targetFolder, string subfolderLabel)
{
    Entry en = _tb.Entries.Item(entryId);
    en.ApplyExportWithMultimedia(_tb.ExportDefinitions["Default export definition"], "", "", targetFolder, subfolderLabel);
    // or alternatively, to system temp folder
    en.ExtractMultimediaToTemp();
}

private void AddImageSample(int entryId, string fieldName, string imagePath)
{
    int mediaId = StoreImage(entryId, imagePath);

    Entry en = _tb.Entries.Item(entryId);
    EntryContent ec = en.Content;
    ec.Content = AddImageToEntryField(ec.Content, fieldName, mediaId.ToString(), imagePath);
    en.LockEntry(MtLockingState.mtLock);
    ec.Update();
    en.LockEntry(MtLockingState.mtUnlock);
}

private string AddImageToEntryField(string entryContent, string fieldName, string mediaId, string path)
{
    XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
    doc.LoadXml(entryContent);

    XmlNode conceptGrpNode = doc.SelectSingleNode("conceptGrp");

    XmlNode descripGrpNode = doc.CreateElement("descripGrp");
    conceptGrpNode.AppendChild(descripGrpNode);
    XmlAttribute attr = doc.CreateAttribute("multimedia");
    attr.Value = mediaId.ToString();
    descripGrpNode.Attributes.Append(attr);

    XmlNode descripNode = doc.CreateElement("descrip");
    descripGrpNode.AppendChild(descripNode);
    attr = doc.CreateAttribute("type");
    attr.Value = fieldName;
    descripNode.Attributes.Append(attr);
    descripNode.InnerText = Path.GetFileName(path);

    return conceptGrpNode.OuterXml;
}

private int StoreImage(int entryId, string path)
{
    byte[] bytes;
    using (BinaryReader br = new BinaryReader(new FileStream(path, FileMode.Open)))
    {
        FileInfo fi = new FileInfo(path);
        bytes = br.ReadBytes((int)fi.Length);
    }
    string blob = "<?xml version=\"1.0\"?><root xmlns:dt=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:datatypes\"><file1 dt:dt=\"bin.base64\">"
        + Convert.ToBase64String(bytes) +
    "</file1></root>";
    return _tb.AddBLOB(entryId, Path.GetFileName(path), blob);
}

nice !!

If you have some extra time, Can you show me how to import "myTerms.mtf.xml" ? I am not so clear about it.

Regards

executed your code.

works fine, import/export both of them

nice !!

Dear Gerhard Kordmann

Many thanks for your response. This looks quite complicated. 

Best Marco

We went through that here already: https://community.sdl.com/developers-more/developers/language-developers/f/sdk_qa/26930/multiterm-import

The API has not magically changed since then :)

right.

But, you said there "not worth digging into this here"

Do you really think digging into images for TB is much worhwhile than regular wordings ?

Wordings should be more 100 times important I guess.

-I have never used images in TB before and I will not have any chance to use it in the future too.

.

And, at that comment, you have not finished-but you spent lots of time here..

I just want to finish it properly.  

actually, this post should moved into "Developer" area.

if you want to use SDK, you have to familiar with C# and SDL's nice samples.

Mr. Gerhard Kordmann's code is very standard one and clearly written.

Regards

You asked about importing with merging duplicates. This seems to be impossible due to a bug in the API, therefore I can't do anything else for you there. I have spent much more time trying to figure that out than with the image code.

Further questions about imports please in the import thread. Cross-thread discussions are confusing.

I was confused

I have thought, by your comment, you did NOT make it because you are so busy.

.

Now I am a little bit clearer, so gave it up totally - only for today, I have tried several hours again and again to try codes.

Thanks