thanks everyone for you help. I will try it and see how it turns out!
al ;) On 5/22/06, darrik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> can anyone tell me what the easiest way to have an application display >> a jpeg image file? Iam thinking of using Axwindows but I don't even >> know what activeX to use and I really dont want to use IE > > I don't know enough about what activeX controls could do this, but it > would be one solution. > > Another approach would be to use DIBitmap to load/manipulate the jpeg, > it can then convert it to a normal bitmap which can be displayed. There > is an example of how to display a bitmap (with scrollbars) in the sample > folder. > > cheers, > > jez. I used Win32::GUI::DIBitmap, and the easiest way I found to do it was: $image=Win32::GUI::DIBitmap->newFromFile($filename); if ($image) { $image->StretchToDC($Win->GetDC()); } Hope that's helpful. :) ~darrik