displaying jpg files - question

1. Create a new form

2. Add an OLE object, name it dhtmledit and set it's progid to
DHTMLEdit.DHTMLEdit.1

3. Add a button and its pushbutton method add:

dhtmledit.NewDocument()

dhtmledit.LoadURL("xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx")

Where "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" is the fully qualified name of some html
resource. What you have is a standard browser window plane. No surprises so
far. Now substitute the fully qualified name of some image file such as a
GIF. It will also render. I got down this road when I was looking for a way
to have my images on PDX files blend in with whatever the form background
color was. You can build a quick HTML file with the image specified in it
and the body background set to whatever your form is and get perfectly
blended graphics that can be made to look like they belong without any hint
of what is behind the scene. I'm sure there are lots of other neat things
that could be accomplished, particularly if you build HTML on the fly and
rendered it on your PDX forms.

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http://www.crooit.com

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of which every man has many,
not on your past misfortunes,
of which all men have some.

Charles Dickens
 >> Stay informed about: displaying jpg files - question 

Hi !

Look the "resolution" (french term, I don't know if english is same) of the
picture.
Adapt to 72 dpi (or other value), and retry.

@-salutations
--
Michel Claveau
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RICK!!!!!!!
How long have you know about this!!!!!! Why didn't you tell me!!!!!!!
Jeezzz man, don't you know the kind of things I've been looking for? It
displays html pages! It doesn't crash! It could display html email!
.....good grief man!
Hey, once you name it properly all the methods and properties show up
too! Onclick, onkeydown, contextmenuaction (? --right click)....
WONDERFUL!


Rick Kelly wrote:
 > 1. Create a new form
 >
 > 2. Add an OLE object, name it dhtmledit and set it's progid to
 > DHTMLEdit.DHTMLEdit.1
 >
 > 3. Add a button and its pushbutton method add:
 >
 > dhtmledit.NewDocument()
 >
 > dhtmledit.LoadURL("xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx")
 >
 > Where "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" is the fully qualified name of some html
 > resource. What you have is a standard browser window plane. No surprises so
 > far. Now substitute the fully qualified name of some image file such as a
 > GIF. It will also render. I got down this road when I was looking for a way
 > to have my images on PDX files blend in with whatever the form background
 > color was. You can build a quick HTML file with the image specified in it
 > and the body background set to whatever your form is and get perfectly
 > blended graphics that can be made to look like they belong without any hint
 > of what is behind the scene. I'm sure there are lots of other neat things
 > that could be accomplished, particularly if you build HTML on the fly and
 > rendered it on your PDX forms.
 ><!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
 >> Stay informed about: displaying jpg files - question 

Yeah, but how do you edit/display changes of the underlying code?

At first, I thought it was just a different version of the browser control -
then I clicked on an image in a page and it let me change the size!

As to crashing, it has already a couple of times on my system. Well, not
crashed exactly, Paradox/form stayed on screen. But gave me weird errors
when trying to navigate to some locations.

Nice find. Now, to figuring out how to change the underlying page code, and
redisplay.

I did find that if I right(double-clicked) on a link, it opened a new IE
window on the link.


--

Tony McGuire
"It's not about having enough time. It's about priorities."
___________________________
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Hmmm...I can't get it to open a link. That's ok really for what I want
it to do.
Tony McGuire wrote:

 > Yeah, but how do you edit/display changes of the underlying code?
 >
 > At first, I thought it was just a different version of the browser control -
 > then I clicked on an image in a page and it let me change the size!
 >
 > As to crashing, it has already a couple of times on my system. Well, not
 > crashed exactly, Paradox/form stayed on screen. But gave me weird errors
 > when trying to navigate to some locations.
 >
 > Nice find. Now, to figuring out how to change the underlying page code, and
 > redisplay.
 >
 > I did find that if I right(double-clicked) on a link, it opened a new IE
 > window on the link.
 >
 >
 > --
 >
 > Tony McGuire
 > "It's not about having enough time. It's about priorities."
 > ___________________________
 >
 ><!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
 >> Stay informed about: displaying jpg files - question 

It also displays text files nicely and more importantly without losing
its scroll position when not active. Hey, you can edit text!!!....but
how can you save it?????? You can edit html as well, but added tags
don't display as html

Let's see, ok I turned on browse mode, that changes how things
work...ok, that launches the default browser...
this is fun

Tony McGuire wrote:

 > Yeah, but how do you edit/display changes of the underlying code?
 >
 > At first, I thought it was just a different version of the browser control -
 > then I clicked on an image in a page and it let me change the size!
 >
 > As to crashing, it has already a couple of times on my system. Well, not
 > crashed exactly, Paradox/form stayed on screen. But gave me weird errors
 > when trying to navigate to some locations.
 >
 > Nice find. Now, to figuring out how to change the underlying page code, and
 > redisplay.
 >
 > I did find that if I right(double-clicked) on a link, it opened a new IE
 > window on the link.
 >
 >
 > --
 >
 > Tony McGuire
 > "It's not about having enough time. It's about priorities."
 > ___________________________
 >
 ><!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
 >> Stay informed about: displaying jpg files - question 

Hey!
Enable plugins and active X! I'm watching quicktime movies now! Err,
go into design mode and the movie keeps playing. That's funny.
Mark Bannister wrote:

 > It also displays text files nicely and more importantly without losing
 > its scroll position when not active. Hey, you can edit text!!!....but
 > how can you save it?????? You can edit html as well, but added tags
 > don't display as html
 >
 > Let's see, ok I turned on browse mode, that changes how things
 > work...ok, that launches the default browser...
 > this is fun
 >
 > Tony McGuire wrote:
 >
  >> Yeah, but how do you edit/display changes of the underlying code?
  >>
  >> At first, I thought it was just a different version of the browser
  >> control -
  >> then I clicked on an image in a page and it let me change the size!
  >>
  >> As to crashing, it has already a couple of times on my system. Well, not
  >> crashed exactly, Paradox/form stayed on screen. But gave me weird errors
  >> when trying to navigate to some locations.
  >>
  >> Nice find. Now, to figuring out how to change the underlying page
  >> code, and
  >> redisplay.
  >>
  >> I did find that if I right(double-clicked) on a link, it opened a new IE
  >> window on the link.
  >>
  >>
  >> --
  >>
  >> Tony McGuire
  >> "It's not about having enough time. It's about priorities."
  >> ___________________________
  >>
  >><!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
 >> Stay informed about: displaying jpg files - question 

Hi Rick,
very interesting!
I would like to learn more about this because I'm not so experienced with
OLE. Well, I know the basics.

 > 2. Add an OLE object, name it dhtmledit and set it's progid to
 > DHTMLEdit.DHTMLEdit.1
I did what you wrote. When trying to define the progID in the explorer's
properties-panel it does not accept any value. What ever I put in is reset
to blank. What am I missing? I'm working with P9 SP3 and XP home.

Egbert


"Rick Kelly" <someone.TakeThisOut@anybody.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:420a0a68$1@pnews.thedbcommunity.com...
 > 1. Create a new form
 >
 > 2. Add an OLE object, name it dhtmledit and set it's progid to
 > DHTMLEdit.DHTMLEdit.1
 >
 > 3. Add a button and its pushbutton method add:
 >
 > dhtmledit.NewDocument()
 >
 > dhtmledit.LoadURL("xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx")
 >
 > Where "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" is the fully qualified name of some html
 > resource. What you have is a standard browser window plane. No surprises
 > so
 > far. Now substitute the fully qualified name of some image file such as a
 > GIF. It will also render. I got down this road when I was looking for a
 > way
 > to have my images on PDX files blend in with whatever the form background
 > color was. You can build a quick HTML file with the image specified in it
 > and the body background set to whatever your form is and get perfectly
 > blended graphics that can be made to look like they belong without any
 > hint
 > of what is behind the scene. I'm sure there are lots of other neat things
 > that could be accomplished, particularly if you build HTML on the fly and
 > rendered it on your PDX forms.
 >
 > --
 > For the quickest and best Paradox support see:
 >
<font color=purple> > <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.thedbcommunity.com/support/</font" target="_blank">http://www.thedbcommunity.com/support/</font</a>>
 >
 > Rick Kelly
 > Crooit Software
<font color=purple> > <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.crooit.com</font" target="_blank">http://www.crooit.com</font</a>>
 >
 > Reflect on your present blessings,
 > of which every man has many,
 > not on your past misfortunes,
 > of which all men have some.
 >
 > Charles Dickens
 >
 ><!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
 >> Stay informed about: displaying jpg files - question 

Try typing it in CAPS. I had the same problem, until I CAPped it.


--

Tony McGuire
"It's not about having enough time. It's about priorities."
___________________________
 >> Stay informed about: displaying jpg files - question 

Thanks, Tony,
after some more tries with capitals und mixed capitals finally it accepted
the entry this way Rick wrote it. Knowing by you that it's only a little bit
stubborn encouraged me to try it until success!
Now I'll continue to test it.

Egbert, 17:18 in Germany


"Tony McGuire" <png.paradoxcommunity@com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:420a33dd@pnews.thedbcommunity.com...
 >
 > Try typing it in CAPS. I had the same problem, until I CAPped it.
 >
 >
 > --
 >
 > Tony McGuire
 > "It's not about having enough time. It's about priorities."
 > ___________________________
 >
 ><!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
 >> Stay informed about: displaying jpg files - question 

Egbert,

Using TextStream code within your PushButton, write a quick little HTML page
that includes your image file name and the size you want the image to be
displayed (just like controlling the size of an image on any web page). You
can also grab the background color of your Form and set the HTML pages
background to that color. Now open that new HTML page that you just made
(instead of just an image file).

The image will be resized to the size you set and the background will appear
as if its your Form (especially cool for transparent GIFs).

Also... earlier, I had posted some information about how to get the size of
an image "before you open it"... Using that code, you can pre-determine the
size of your image... then set the "re-size" parameters (in your TextStream
created HTML code) so that they are "proportional" to the original image
size, yet will fit in the space you have provided on the Form. You can then
also re-size the OLE object on the page to be the same size as the reduced
image. (if you had to reduce the image)

If the original image size is smaller or equal to the OLE object... then you
merely need to resize the OLE object so its size is "proportional".

I think that all makes sense... I wrote it kind of quick.



--
....
`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·-> rodney
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Hm,
loads HTML stuff (local or from internet) well. Neat!
Bitmaps, depends. I could not get all pictures to be displayed. Some
pictures gave an error box without error message. Other displayed not the
bitmap but some characters instead.
More then, I need to find out e.g. how to scale so that the picture fit into
the OLE-field without using scrollbars.
Any idea for the latter?

Egbert, 18:24 in Germany

"Egbert Babst" <EgbertBabst.TakeThisOut@BabstSoft.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:420a37fd$1@pnews.thedbcommunity.com...
 > Thanks, Tony,
 > after some more tries with capitals und mixed capitals finally it accepted
 > the entry this way Rick wrote it. Knowing by you that it's only a little
 > bit stubborn encouraged me to try it until success!
 > Now I'll continue to test it.
 >
 > Egbert, 17:18 in Germany
 >
 >
 > "Tony McGuire" <png.paradoxcommunity@com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
 > news:420a33dd@pnews.thedbcommunity.com...
  >>
  >> Try typing it in CAPS. I had the same problem, until I CAPped it.
  >>
  >>
  >> --
  >>
  >> Tony McGuire
  >> "It's not about having enough time. It's about priorities."
  >> ___________________________
  >>
  >>
 >
 ><!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
 >> Stay informed about: displaying jpg files - question 

Hi Rick,
it's a nice enrichment for me (see my posting below).
Do you have any URL to more information about this type of OLEs?
How could I - or any other - know how to name the OLE field correctly and
the progID?
You, Tony and (I guess) some other knew it and surely you have read more
about before. Can you (or anybody) point me to some stuff?
TIA!
Egbert, 18:31 in Germany

"Rick Kelly" <someone.TakeThisOut@anybody.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:420a0a68$1@pnews.thedbcommunity.com...
 > 1. Create a new form
 >
 > 2. Add an OLE object, name it dhtmledit and set it's progid to
 > DHTMLEdit.DHTMLEdit.1
 >
 > 3. Add a button and its pushbutton method add:
 >
 > dhtmledit.NewDocument()
 >
 > dhtmledit.LoadURL("xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx")
 >
 > Where "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" is the fully qualified name of some html
 > resource. What you have is a standard browser window plane. No surprises
 > so
 > far. Now substitute the fully qualified name of some image file such as a
 > GIF. It will also render. I got down this road when I was looking for a
 > way
 > to have my images on PDX files blend in with whatever the form background
 > color was. You can build a quick HTML file with the image specified in it
 > and the body background set to whatever your form is and get perfectly
 > blended graphics that can be made to look like they belong without any
 > hint
 > of what is behind the scene. I'm sure there are lots of other neat things
 > that could be accomplished, particularly if you build HTML on the fly and
 > rendered it on your PDX forms.
 >
 > --
 > For the quickest and best Paradox support see:
 >
<font color=purple> > <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.thedbcommunity.com/support/</font" target="_blank">http://www.thedbcommunity.com/support/</font</a>>
 >
 > Rick Kelly
 > Crooit Software
<font color=purple> > <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.crooit.com</font" target="_blank">http://www.crooit.com</font</a>>
 >
 > Reflect on your present blessings,
 > of which every man has many,
 > not on your past misfortunes,
 > of which all men have some.
 >
 > Charles Dickens
 >
 ><!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
 >> Stay informed about: displaying jpg files - question