Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Tip of the Day #3: Managing Multipage Images in R:BASE for Windows
Section: Enhanced Commands (RBBEdit) and Built-in Tools
Supported Versions:
. R:BASE 7.6 (Build 7.6.2.31211 or higher) for Windows
. R:BASE (C/S:I) 7.6 (Build 7.6.2.31211 or higher) for Windows
. R:BASE Turbo (Build 7.6.2.31211 or higher) for Windows
Did you know that you can use the built-in Note/BLOB Viewer/Editor
to manage multi-page VARBIT images, such as DCX, TIFF and GIF files?
The enhanced Note/BLOB Viewer/Editor now includes an additional
option to manage Multipage Images.
When Editing or Browsing the data using Data Browser/Editor, or
DB Grid in forms, the dynamic Note/BLOB Viewer/Editor is used
if you double click on the NOTE, VARCHAR or VARBIT columns.
When using the form as BROWSE USING formname, EDIT USING formname,
or ENTER USING formname, the Note/BLOB Viewer/Editor is used when
double clicking on DB Memo control for NOTE data types, DB Rich
Edit control for VARCHAR data type to manage RTF data or DB Image
control for VARBIT data type to manage images.
Depending on the form control used, an appropriate tab page of the
Note/BLOB Viewer/Editor is opened to manage the data accordingly.
If you wish to manage Multipage images, such as DCX, TIFF or GIFs,
you may select the [Multipage Images] tab of the Note/BLOB
Viewer/Editor.
You may also use the enhanced RBBEDIT (RBBE) command to manage
external files.
-- Example 01 (To Manage External Plain Text Data)
RBBE filename.txt
-- Example 02 (To Manage External RTF Data)
RBBE filename.rtf
-- Example 03 (To Manage Bitmap Files)
RBBE filename.bmp
-- Example 04 (To Manage Multipage TIFFs)
RBBE filename.TIF
-- Example 05 (To Manage Multipage DCX Files)
RBBE filename.cdx
-- Example 06 (To Manage Multipage GIFs)
RBBE filename.gif
Enjoy the enhanced Note/BLOB Viewer/Editor!
Very Best R:egards,
Razzak.
