InfoItem Object

Overview

The InfoItem object represents an individual EXIF or IPTC metadata field. An instance of the InfoItem object is obtained from the Info collection via the default Item property, or by enumerating all items in the collection using a For/Each statement.

For more information on metadata, see Chapter 7 - Metadata Extraction.

Member List

Properties


Description As String (Read-only)

Returns the metadata field description, e.g. "Manufacturer of image input equipment" for the "Make" field. This property is only implemented for EXIF fields, for other types of fields returns an empty string.

See also: Chapter 7 - Metadata Extraction.


Name As String (Read-only)

Returns the metadata field name, e.g. "MaxApertureValue", "IptcKeywords" or "TiffPages".

See also: Chapter 7 - Metadata Extraction.


Tag As Long (Read-only)

Returns the metadata field tag, a unique number assigned to each EXIT or IPTC field according to the EXIF and IPTC specifications. The "TiffPages" field is arbitrarily assigned the tag value of 999, and an empty field is assigned the tag value of 0.

See also: Chapter 7 - Metadata Extraction.


Value As Variant (Read-only)

Returns the metadata field value. This can be an integer, float or string depending on the field type. This is the default property.

See also: Chapter 7 - Metadata Extraction.

Methods

This object has no public methods.