[Fat-develop] FAT Clickable Thumbnails

[Darren M. <DMc...@th...>]

Owen,

Some notes on the clickable thumbnails .....

It should work fine on Windows 2000.

On Windows XP, if you can see a thumbnail of an html file in the 
thumbnails view in Windows Explorer then it's working. To get it working 
on my XP machine I had to :

1. Install and register C:\windows\system32\thumbvw.dll.

2. Add the following registry entries:

 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.html\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}]
        @  =  "{EAB841A0-9550-11cf-8C16-00805F1408F3}"

I used an approach of writing the html to a file and using the shell 
extensions to get a thumbnail of the file. I'd have preferred an approach 
of getting images from the InternetExplorerClass - but couldn't get it 
working.

The tweaks required to XP are a pain, maybe it's possible to make the 
registry tweak at FAT start-up. Not sure about including thumbvw.dll in a 
distribution though?

Cheers, 

Darren