That jpeg image viewing with fP...

[CDAY]

Mark,

For me, VuePrint is sufficient at this time, especially now that XP 
seems to let filePro bring it up across a network. Now, I need to get a 
few customers who want to actully use images with their inventory.

Charles Day



Fairlight wrote:
> Is Vueprint sufficient, or do I want to still be looking at writing
> something like this?  I ask because I just got the solution for the focus
> issue--one that will allow me to put focus on the last window that had
> focus before the viewer was started.  This would ostensibly be the filePro
> window that was active at @KEY.
> 
> The other considerations aren't as hard.  Some sort of IPC can always be
> worked out.  I personally think it would probably be easiest to make it a
> client/server affair where the viewer simply listens for a UDP packet from
> the local host (ONLY from the local host, for security reasons) that tells
> it the pathname of the image to load.  You'd call a windowless client that
> would start the viewer if it needed starting, and pass along the data to
> the viewer once one is running--or the current one if extant.  It's a pity
> Windows doesn't support named pipes.  That would be ideal.
> 
> This model (rather than DDE, OLE/COM, etc.) would actually make -that- part
> of it uniform between *nix and Windows, and only the focus would have to be
> reworked for *nix if it was ever required.
> 
> Of course, if Vueprint is sufficient, I shouldn't bother wasting my time.  :)
> Hence the query...
> 
> mark->