Arno R wrote:
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>>Arno R wrote:
>>>"Salad" <oi*@vinegar.comschreef in bericht news:13*************@corp.supernews.com...
Arno R wrote:
>Hi all.
>
>When I need to search for pictures, I always have too choose thumbnail-view manually.
>Is it possible to open the common dialog in thumbnail-view programmatically?
>Example ??
>At the moment I am using Ken Getz' code. at http://www.mvps.org/access/api/api0001.htm
>
>Thanks
>Arno R
I like Irfanview. http://www.irfanview.com/. I don't use it within my
Access apps but it's great for viewing pictures and thumbnails.
Can I use Irfanview from within Access to select (the path to) pictures?
I need the pictures in Access of course. I need to save the path to Images for certain records.
So the common dialog is fine, but it would be nice if it would open in thumbnail-view.
I don't see why not. I upgraded my old version to see what the most
current command line options are. Here are 3 of them
/slideshow=txtfile - play slideshow with the files from 'txtfile'
/slideshow=folder - play slideshow with the files from 'folder'
/thumbs - force thumbnails
I suppose you could make a command line like
i_view32.exe /slideshow=C:\Test /thumbs
to display all the image files in C:\Test as Thumbnails.
Irfanview is a small program and quick to download. There's so many
command line options (see the help topic on it) that it should be able
to do what you like. I suppose you'd need Shell() to open it with the
command line options tho. I'm not sure why you need to store the
pictures in an Access table, maybe A2007 has good control of that.
>>>Btw: I use ACDSee for browsing/viewing pictures.
Probably has some similarites to Ifranview. Irfanview is freeware
(non-commercial use). If you press the About button in the program is
says "This copy of Irfanview is registered to You". No time/eval periods.
>>>Arno R
Well, I might try Irfanview. Not sure how much work that will be...
>I'm not sure why you need to store the
pictures in an Access table, maybe A2007 has good control of that.
As I said I only need the *path* to the Image. I am not storing the images themselves.
I wil explain further:
What I am looking for is a 'facility' to make the following easy:
A guy ( a shop owner) gets new goods, takes pictures from his goods, stores these pictures somewhere on his PC and ...
afterwards he adds records of his new goods to his database, and also wants to add (a link to) the pictures ...
I still think that presenting a common dialog to 'pick the pics' is sufficient, but thumbnail-view would be nice.
Thanks
Arno R
I've been playing around with this because its an interesting concept
although I don't fully understand your needs. Not sure if this is
anything you want to do but...I opened up my thumbnail jpgs in Irfanview
and selected a few and had Irfanview make an html page of them. Well,
this converted the jpgs to thumbnail jpg images. I went to the folder
where they were created and deleted the full size pics and html file.
I then created a table in Access...3 fields; ID, PicText (text to define
it), and PicFile (the hyperlink to the thumbnail).
Now I created a form and dropped those three fields into them and
created an image control. In my OnCurrent event my code is
Private Sub Form_Current()
Me.Image6.Picture = HyperlinkPart(Me.PicFile, acAddress)
End Sub
As I go through each record (single form) it displays the thumbnail to
the screen. I suppose with a dblclick (no need to show the hyperlink)
and I could call/open the picture. Thus Pic1.jpg is the full size pic,
Pic1T.jpg would be the thumbnail.
There's the old problem with continuous forms...if you had multiple
images (you can see more than 1 record) all images would be the current
image.
You might want to check out Tucows (
http://tucows.com) as well. There
might be something there. Perhaps start with "Thumbnail view" for
searching.
