Re: [Fat-develop] FAT Clickable Thumbnails

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

just a thought - maybe getting the thumbnail from the 
InternetExplorerClass wouldn't be such a good idea as this would couple 
FAT to WebTest. The way the thumbnails are done at the moment just uses 
chunks of html and so should be usable with most web test frameworks one 
would want to use.

d





Owen Rogers
04/02/2004 12:42

        To:     Darren McGrath/UK/ThoughtWorks@ThoughtWorks
        cc:     fat...@li...
        Subject:        Re: [Fat-develop] FAT Clickable Thumbnails

ah, you got it from the russians?  sure it's safe?

> Are there any issues with including a MS dll?
not that i can think of.
o.

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R. Owen Rogers
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Darren McGrath
04/02/2004 02:55

        To:     Owen Rogers/Canada/ThoughtWorks@ThoughtWorks
        cc:     fat...@li...
        Subject:        Re: [Fat-develop] FAT Clickable Thumbnails


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.



ThoughtWorks - Deliver with passion!




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