Dynamic Thumbnail Generation

[dvst8]

I posted this some time ago, and no one seemed to know how...

I want to be able to dynamically generate thumbnails on the fly. I tried launching a 3rd party application, but that didn't really work as hoped.

Is there an ASP component that can help me do this???

Hope someone knows...

dvst8

Not that I know of...

...but if you run your own web server...or are pally with the server's admin blokie then you could write an activex control component with an image control to do it (set "stretch" to true and resize the image control...then save the conents of the "image" (NOT "picture") property...)

I've had another idea...does your server have IE4 installed?
If it does then you might have access to Microsoft's little thumbnail control...

You know when you look at a folder in "web view" and click on a picture... it puts a little thumbnail of the picture in the lefthand pane of the folder...

If you open up c:\windows\web\folder.htt and goto line 319 you'll see where they embed it, and there'll be a few lines of javascript in the code above it that tell it what picture to generate a thumbnail of. See lines 117, 261, 265-272 and 319. (Those line numbers are off Frontpage 2000 and I think it might have wrapped some of the lines...but it's a start :) )

[dvst8]

thanks mat...

i am not a pro at VB so the activex control will be some work..i'll have to look up how to write one correctly.
but i'll give it a whirl/../

cheers
d8

[raghu_ktm@yahoo.com]

Dear sir,

Can anybody explain me that code
c:\windows\web\folder.htt

because i am using XP and there is not that http file to see.

I want to create dynamic thumbnail view of Image form ASP code.

Thanks
Raghu Bhandari