creating thumbnails from .jpg

[James]

Hi, I'm a newbie to VB.NET and I am trying to create thumbnails from .jpg
files (my travel pictures) to
post on a website. I want to create an executable that I can put in a
directory containing my jpg images which will create the thumbnails with a
"-t.jpg" extenstion. I found this code below which will create a thumbnail
from a specified file, "randomphoto.jpg".

Sub Thumbnail()
Dim myCallback As System.Drawing.Image.GetThumbnailImageAbort
Dim myPtr As IntPtr
Dim myPic As New Bitmap("E:\randomphoto.jpg")
Dim myThumb As System.Drawing.Image = myPic.GetThumbnailImage(100, 100,
myCallback, myPtr)
myThumb.Save("E:\mythumb.jpg", System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Jpeg)
End Sub

How can I alter this code to pick out any .jpg file in the current directory
and create a thumbnail. Do I use a looping structure to read each file and
run the above module? Any help in pointing me in the right direction
appreciated.
James

[Frank Eller [MVP]]

Hi James,

Hi, I'm a newbie to VB.NET and I am trying to create thumbnails from
.jpg files (my travel pictures) to
post on a website. I want to create an executable that I can put in a
directory containing my jpg images which will create the thumbnails
with a "-t.jpg" extenstion. I found this code below which will
create a thumbnail from a specified file, "randomphoto.jpg".

Sub Thumbnail()
Dim myCallback As System.Drawing.Image.GetThumbnailImageAbort
Dim myPtr As IntPtr
Dim myPic As New Bitmap("E:\randomphoto.jpg")
Dim myThumb As System.Drawing.Image =
myPic.GetThumbnailImage(100, 100, myCallback, myPtr)
myThumb.Save("E:\mythumb.jpg",
System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Jpeg) End Sub

How can I alter this code to pick out any .jpg file in the current
directory and create a thumbnail. Do I use a looping structure to
read each file and run the above module? Any help in pointing me in
the right direction appreciated.

Check the GetFiles()-method from the DirectoryInfo-Class, which gives you
all the files in a directory as FileInfo-Objects. You can use those in a
loop to create your thumbnails.

Regards,

Frank Eller
www.frankeller.de

[John Timney \(Microsoft MVP\)]

Have a read of something like this.

http://support.microsoft.com/default...4&ID=kb;en-us;
Q303974&SD=MSDN

You could even automate the process. Why dont you try to find an example of
filesystemwatcher. If you made it watch for changes in the directory (ie.
new jpg's) then you could make it automatically create the thumbnails for
you.

--
Regards

John Timney
Microsoft Regional Director
Microsoft MVP
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Hi, I'm a newbie to VB.NET and I am trying to create thumbnails from .jpg
files (my travel pictures) to
post on a website. I want to create an executable that I can put in a
directory containing my jpg images which will create the thumbnails with a
"-t.jpg" extenstion. I found this code below which will create a thumbnail from a specified file, "randomphoto.jpg".

Sub Thumbnail()
Dim myCallback As System.Drawing.Image.GetThumbnailImageAbort
Dim myPtr As IntPtr
Dim myPic As New Bitmap("E:\randomphoto.jpg")
Dim myThumb As System.Drawing.Image = myPic.GetThumbnailImage(100, 100, myCallback, myPtr)
myThumb.Save("E:\mythumb.jpg", System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Jpeg) End Sub

How can I alter this code to pick out any .jpg file in the current directory and create a thumbnail. Do I use a looping structure to read each file and run the above module? Any help in pointing me in the right direction
appreciated.
James