# Record Mode

An Image File edit control supports taking images from your application and adding them to a new or existing image-database file:

1. Configure your vision application to pass an output image to an Image File tool.

2. Open the Image File tool edit control and open an existing image-database file or start a new image-database file.

   Click the New ImageFile button to start a new image-database file:

   See the topic Opening Files for details on opening existing image files. .

3. Press the Record Mode button in the edit control:

4. Run your vision application and verify that the Image File edit control displays the images you pass to it:

5. To delete any given image, select the image and click the delete button:

6. Press the Record Mode button again to exit recording mode.