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[Steven McGarva]

There was a post last week by someone looking for Projects and it spured me onto a new one. I intend creating a utility to preview images.

Does anyone have any comments, views, pointers or pitfalls for me?

I intend to use the ImageList type thing to collect all .icos, .jpegs, etc then give the user an option to preview them in a small box (what kind?). What kind of files would this work for? Any memory, speed, efficiency issues?

I know there will be someone who has done this before, but I want to try it myself before asking for code examples, which will probably be next week.

[HeSaidJoe]

use a file listbox to list the image files
on click load the image
use an image control with stretch propery to true
presto there is your thumbnail



[Edited by HeSaidJoe on 08-18-2000 at 10:21 AM]

the image control... why didnt I think of that?

I am not being sarcastic here,
about 2 months ago I wrote an image viewing/encryption program for a friend, because he wanted to hide his porn from his wife(hehehehe).(I copied the encrypiton algo. out of a book, because I didnt know anything about encryption a few months ago)
and I loaded the image into a picture box that was hidden, then stretchblt'ed it onto a picbox that wasnt hidden.....
i cant beleive I didnt think of using the image control.

thanks for the idea anyway, I think I might just make my friend an upgrade.