Javier,
The writing is on the wall here. Activex, IE, Flash and Shockwave are
all dead. Even if you can band-aid your procedure for now, any solution
dependent on them will likely be broken again by upgrades or deprecation
and you will be in the same situation again. Sorry but I think it's time
to move on.
If you need your existing images (I believe you didn't specify video or
still), there's a free online converter
<https://onlineconvertfree.com/convert-format/swf-to-jpg/> for SWF
stills (no idea if it works) and a subscription-based program called
Filestar <https://filestar.com/> for SWF video.
HTH
Nicky
On 2/9/2023 8:49 AM, [email protected] wrote:
Thanks R:azzak,
I am getting back into doing work with R:base and shedding the rust
off…like riding a bicycle, most comes back quickly. 😊
I will do some research on the active-x component approach, but at
this time, it might be better to go on a new direction with up-to-date
controls or risk being back at square one again soon. Any idea where
to get the active-x control and I take it there are instruction on how
to install in in the help files?
I thought there was an option to globally change passwords, I must
have been thinking about the global option to compress/uncompress
forms. It would be a nice option to have so all forms can be globally
assigned a password before delivery of a system to a client or
globally removed during development.
Javier,
Javier Valencia, PE
913-915-3137
*From:*[email protected] <[email protected]> *On Behalf
Of *A. Razzak Memon
*Sent:* Thursday, February 9, 2023 7:35 AM
*To:* [email protected]
*Subject:* Re: [RBASE-L] - Displaying SWF pictures
Javier,
Though IE is no longer supported and appears to be removed from the
system, it is still there. The issue is whether the ActiveX control
that is supposed to read the SWF file is installed. In RBASE, an IE
session may be started in the browser control. The browser control has
an option on whether to use IE or Edge as the engine.
Another approach is to import the SWF ActiveX control to RBASE as a
control (if present in the system). Then load the SWF using that
imported ActiveX control.
If the SWF reader is not present, then you can't do much about it.
Adobe Flash is long gone.
Regarding a way to globally remove the design password from all forms,
you may contact the support and services team at R:BASE Technologies
for such special service.
Hope it helps!
Very Best R:egards,
Razzak
On 2/8/2023 11:28 PM, [email protected] wrote:
I am working on an older application that uses SWF pictures
generated by an external application that is run from line
command. In the pasts I just placed a web browser in the form, and
it displayed the SWF picture without any problem; I believe it
used the MS Explorer.
Apparently, the new browser, Edge, no longer supports SWF files,
nor do any of the other browsers as the format has been
discontinued. I tried several format converters, but none seems to
work with this flavor of SWF.
Is there anyway to display a SWF file in and R:Base form? I might
be able to get the picture/graph as an Excel graph. Is there any
way to display an Excel graph in a form.
The last option would be to get the graph as a data set and the
use R:Charts to generate the graph. Since the graph is only used
in one form, seems like R:Charts would be an overkill.
On a separate note, is there a way to globally remove the design
password from all forms? I seem to remember there was a way to do
it but not having used R:base for a while now, I am somewhat
rusty. I have over 200 forms and I would prefer to do them all at
once; I seem to remember adding the design password to all the
forms globally…but I could be wrong.. ☹
Any ideas or suggestion will be appreciated.
Javier,
Javier Valencia, PE
913-915-3137
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