Re: [Fat-develop] FAT Clickable Thumbnails

[Owen R. <OR...@th...>]

darren,
this looks sweet.  thanks for putting this together.  i haven't had the
chance to try out the code yet, but i look forward to doing so.

> I'd have preferred an approach of getting images from the
InternetExplorerClass - but couldn't get it working.
i can have a look at this.  it should be possible to do anything that ie
can do.

> The tweaks required to XP are a pain, maybe it's possible to make the
registry tweak at FAT start-up.
sure.  seems fine with me.

> Not sure about including thumbvw.dll in a distribution though?
why not?  where does the dll come from?

cheers,
o.

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R. Owen Rogers
ThoughtWorks Technologies (India) Pvt Ltd.



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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