viewing jpegs and focus

[Howie]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don Coleman" <dcoleman at dgcreact.com>
To: "Howie" <howiewz at beonthenet.com>
Cc: "filePro Mailing List" <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 11:17 AM
Subject: Re: viewing jpegs and focus


| Howie wrote:
|
| >I forgot the company's web site is at: http://www.hamrick.com/
| >
| >
| >
| >----- Original Message ----- 
| >From: "Howie" <howiewz at beonthenet.com>
| >To: "filePro Mailing List" <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
| >Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 8:47 PM
| >Subject: Re: viewing jpegs and focus
| >
| >
| >| Sorry, I lost the original message so I'm not sure who I am replying
to.
| >|
| >| I display jpgs from filepro with a small viewer that I found a few
years
| >| ago.  It's called VuePrint but the exeutable is named: vuepro32.exe.
| >|
| >| It's available for 29.95 with a free trial download.
| >|
| >| The version I have does NOT take focus when I change images (except for
| >the
| >| first time) and retains it's size and position on the screen (once you
set
| >| it up).  These may be "bugs" that have been fixed but I still have the
| >| version that works.
| >|
| >| I actually reserve space on the filepro data entry screen and overlay
the
| >| image.  Works great!
| >|
| >| The only problem I had was forcing the extra window to close when you
exit
| >| filePro.  For this I wrote a small program in WIL Batch language that
| >| searches for the vueprint window and closes it.  I execute this program
as
| >| the second line of the the menu script that calls the filepro
application
| >| (an inventory program that display the
| >| item's images)
| >|
| >| I demoed it at the filePro conference a couple of years ago.
| >|
| >| If you like VuePrint I will be glad to make the program that closes the
| >| window available to you.
| >|
| >| Howie
| >|
| >|
| >
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| Howie & Charles:
|
| I donwloaded the demo for ViewPrint 8.0.  Using it in an @KEY routine it
| is seems to be fulfilling each requirement that I have.  Thanks for the
| suggestion.  Thanks also to the other people who replied, Walter, Mark.
| Much appreciated.
|
| Don Coleman
|

Great Don,

My pleasure.

To get the program that closes the vueprint window - download it from
http://www.photobuff.com/demo/  The executable is named closevue.exe.  The
source is closevue.wbt (a simple one liner - look at it in notepad).

Here is what the menu script that uses it looks like:

@echo off
cls
echo.
echo.
echo  You will have to shift the focus back to the filePro window
echo.
pause

rclerk pix -s0 -h "Displaying / Printing Images"

c:\demo\closevue


Howie