You need to construct a new Ink object. You can't load ink into an ink
object that has been populated before.

Ink newInk = new Ink();
newInk.Load(...);
inkPicture.Ink = newInk;

Josh

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>
> I am trying to follow the example on:
>
> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa480684.aspx
>
> And have created a simple control -
>
> 1 InkPicture
> 1 TextBox
> 3 Buttons
>
> The code for the buttons are:
>
> private void button2_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
> {
> inkPicture1.Ink.DeleteStrokes();
> inkPicture1.Refresh();
> }
>
> private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
> {
> byte[] inkBytes =
> inkPicture1.Ink.Save(PersistenceFormat.Gif);
> textBox1.Text = Convert.ToBase64String(inkBytes);
> }
>
> private void button3_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
> {
> byte[] inkBytes = Convert.FromBase64String(textBox1.Text);
> inkPicture1.Ink.Load(inkBytes);
> inkPicture1.Invalidate();
> }
>
> So what I am trying to acheive is
>
> 1) Draw some ink on the inkpicture
> 2) Click on button1 and store the ink as a Base64String somewhere
> (textBox1.Text)
> 3) Click on button2 to clear the page
> 4) Click on button3 to restore the ink back ot the ink control
>
> Stage 2 seems to work - populates the textbox with a string
> Stage 3 is fine - clears the picture
> Stage 4 when I try to load the ink fails ("Value does not fall within
> the specified range")
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>