Re: [Fat-develop] FAT Clickable Thumbnails

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

owen,

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

I pulled it off this site:

http://dll.yaroslavl.ru/index.php3?lng=&in_char=T

I think it's a Windows 2000 dll that's not part of the standard build for 
xp. Are there any issues with including a MS dll?

darren





Owen Rogers
02/02/2004 03:54

        To:     Darren McGrath 
<DMc...@th...>@THOUGHTWORKS_COM
        cc:     fat...@li...
        Subject:        Re: [Fat-develop] FAT Clickable Thumbnails

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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Darren McGrath <DMc...@th...>
Sent by: fat...@li...
30/01/2004 20:45
 
        To:     "Owen Rogers <ORogers"
        cc:     fat...@li...
        Subject:        [Fat-develop] FAT Clickable Thumbnails



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