Viewing Scanned images

[Don Coleman]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: filepro-list-bounces+dcoleman=dgcreact.com at lists.celestial.com
> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces+dcoleman=dgcreact.com at lists.celestial.com] On
> Behalf Of ivan chason
> Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 11:49 AM
> To: filePro
> Subject: Re: Viewing Scanned images
> 
> 
> 
> --- Walter Vaughan <wvaughan at steelerubber.com> wrote:
> 
> > ivan chason wrote:
> > > Is there a viewing app that I could run on unix to
> > let
> > > other viewers see the scanned images though?
> >
> > You're still missing the problem. The files are what
> > they are. You can covert
> > them from .tiff to .jpg's to .swf's, but they still
> > are bits of data on a
> > server. Your unix box is the server. Your clients
> > are the Windows, MacOSX, or
> > Linux machines that a person sits at. The clients
> > "pull" the information into
> > them and use an application like irfanview and
> > convert those bits of data into a
> > image that is displayed on a screen or paper.
> > Nothing on the server has to do
> > with the viewing, how it get viewed all happens on
> > the client device.
> >
> > Well that's not entirely true... if you change the
> > metaphor of how you
> > communicate with the server to be web based, then
> > the server does have a huge
> > "say" in how those images get in front of the
> > client.
> >
> > --
> > Walter
> 
> So we're back to the simplest solution being to just
> setup a VPN.
> 
> Now where would using the BLOB command fit into all of
> this.  I'm still hoping to some how stream line the
> way that images are viewed.  Now we use a system
> command and I would like to contain everything within
> FilePro's functionality.  I just really don't have an
> understanding of how the BLOB function works.
> -Ivan
> 
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Ivan:

The command I used was:

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         If: 
       Then: system "start C:\FAIRVIEW\FAIRVIEW.EXE
\\nascifs01\RFsh01\DrugImages/"{mid(24,"1","9"){".jpg"

The relevant parts are starting the viewer app. (in this case I'm using
Fairlight's Fairview app. and appending the image location (in this case it
is a drug image database located on one of my client's servers.  As I
understand it one way to do this would be to use fP's FPGI app. to position
the viewed image within my fP app.  However we didn't want to sacrifice
speed as this in an intensive app. already and I understood fPGI to be
somewhat slower than running fP as a console app.  That left using a 3rd
party application.  With most viewers I tested once the image was opened the
"image window" maintained the focus and the user would have to click on the
fP app to regain focus on it and work.  This would be too cumbersome to do
hundreds of times per hour.  

Two app's that allowed the fP app. to maintain focus were VUEPRO (suggested
by Howie W.) and Fairlight's FAIRVIEW.  Both of these allowed the
pharmacist's to view the drug image on a window right next to my fP app as
needed but continue to be active in the fP app. 



Don Coleman
Donald G. Coleman, Consultant
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