Thanks for the reply, Tracy. Very high res images but some display fine while others pixelate. I am storing directly in the file system with no transforms. They look fine if you preview in OS but the ancient OLE image control doesn't like something. The tricky part has been determining just what that something is; perhaps number of colors in the JPG but so far we just haven't been able to figure out what the breaking factor is. Which is why I was hoping there might be a 3rd party COM control out there that others here have used. The DBI controls focus more on composite controls like calendar. No luck yet finding an out of the box image control.
-- rk -----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Tracy Pearson Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2018 10:11 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Replacement for standard OLE image control I use the built in image control to view imported pictures. I use an old LeadTools product to resize the image to 800x600 before storing it. Is your customers images from a 12 megapixel or higher camera? You could use one of the available ways to reduce the image size for displaying in your normal form. Then have a way to view the full size image. Enabling scrollbars on a form? Good luck on your quest. Tracy -----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Richard Kaye Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 6:21 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Replacement for standard OLE image control I wish this had come up when I was at SWFox last week... As we all should know, the VFP OLE image control is...a bit long in the tooth. I just ran across an issue today with a client who was complaining that just recently some of his beautiful images are turning into pixelated goo. Of course, trying to figure out what is the underlying root cause is problematic at best. The display mechanism is reading a file from disk and using it as the source for a standard VFP OLE image control. So whilst I once again start my research out on the greater internet, I look to the collective wisdom here. Anybody using a 3rd party image control that does not have the underlying problems that come with using a native Windows control stuck in ~2003? Or otherwise have any other solutions for displaying JPGs in their UI? _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/bn6pr10mb129952a656a9ca15af918ecfd2...@bn6pr10mb1299.namprd10.prod.outlook.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
