how do i open a jpg?

[vladedoty 0]

how do i press a button on my gui and have it create a dummy window from a jpg?

Edited July 24, 2010 by vladedoty

[KaFu 295]

shellexecute("picture.jpg")

[vladedoty 0]

shellexecute("picture.jpg")

cool i guess i am doing this wrong then cause when i do this it opens in Paint maximizied

What i am trying to do is when i press a button on the gui it opens a "dummy window" sized at 940 x 520

and i was just going to use the jpg i created in paint for the dummy window

is this easily done?

Edited July 24, 2010 by vladedoty

[Melba23 3,455]

vladedoty,

Using ShellExecute tells Windows to open the file with the default application for that type of file - you obviously have .jpg associated with Paint.

What exactly do you mean by "dummy window"? Something like this?

#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>
#include <WindowsConstants.au3>

$hGUI = GUICreate("Test", 500, 500)

$hButton = GUICtrlCreateButton("Show JPG", 10, 10, 80, 30)

GUISetState()

While 1
    Switch GUIGetMsg()
        Case $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
            Exit
        Case $hButton
            GUISetState(@SW_HIDE, $hGUI)
            GUICreate("", 300, 300, Default, Default, $WS_POPUP)
            GUICtrlCreatePic("Your.jpg", 0, 0, 300, 300)
            GUISetState()
    EndSwitch
WEnd

M23

[KaFu 295]

Using ShellExecute tells Windows to open the file with the default application for that type of file - you obviously have .jpg associated with Paint.

Well, the initial question was "how do i open a jpg?" ...

[Melba23 3,455]

KaFu,

My dear chap, not at all a dig at you - my immediate thought was exactly the same.

M23

[KaFu 295]

No offense taken , my thought was that he wanted exactly something like the sample you posted... but I didn't wanted to answer a question which I've had to formulate myself ...