How to compare pictures in 2 different picture boxes

[shah123]

How to compare 2 pictures in 2 different picture boxes in C#?

[Talikag]

What do you mean compare? You want to check if it's the same picture?

[shah123]

Yes something like

if (Object.Equals(box1.Image,box5.Image,box9.Image)) // that doesnt work

But i have to compare 3 pictures at one time?

[laitinen]

But i have to compare 3 pictures at one time?

Are you able to compare two pictures? Then first compare pic1 and pic2. If they are equal you compare one of them with pic3.

Laitinen

[Talikag]

There is no ComparesTo method or something similar. What you can do to compare is to create your own == operator that gets 2 images. There you will save the both images as files, and read from each. If the strings that you read equal, return true, otherwise, return false. Of course you should delete it before returning a value.
[CODE]
...
pictureBox1.Image.Save(@"C:/Image1", System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Png);
pictureBox2.Image.Save(@"C:/Image1", System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Png);
System.IO.StreamReader StreamReader1 = new System.IO.StreamReader(@".../Image1.jpg");
System.IO.StreamReader StreamReader2 = new System.IO.StreamReader(@".../Image2.jpg");
if(StreamReader1.ReadToEnd() == StreamReader2.ReadToEnd())
{
//Delete files
return true;
}
//Delete files
return false;

[shah123]

yes saving to file is a nice idea. Got It working in slightly different way but thanks Guys

[Talikag]

yes saving to file is a nice idea. Got It working in slightly different way but thanks Guys
Can you please post here the way you did it? It's really cause curiosity...

[shah123]

Sorry usually i post answer as well but forgot. I found the solution which was lengthy but here it is


public bool CompareImages(Image image1,Image image2,Image image3)
{
if(!Object.Equals(image1,image2))
{
return false;
}
if(!Object.Equals(image2,image3))
{
return false;
}

return true;

}

public void checkAll()
{
if (CompareImages(box1.Image, box2.Image, box3.Image))
{
DisplayWinner();

}
else if (CompareImages(box4.Image, box5.Image, box6.Image))
{
DisplayWinner();

}
}