Open Picture

[locutus243]

I have a folder on my D: drive which contains pictures. I want AutoIT to open a specified picture when I request it, pretty much like a FileOpen command, but FileOpen only opens text files. Is there another function that allows me to open pictures ???

Also is it possible to write a script that creates a input box and then allows you to input the picture I want to open. (In essence opening a input box and then using whatever is entered in there to determine what my script does!!)

Thanx for any help you can give

Mark

[Beastmaster]

like a FileOpen command, but FileOpen only opens text files

when I request it

Aka you wanna have a dialog with your script ?!

That sample is from AU3's help

$message = "Hold down Ctrl or Shift to choose multiple files."

$var = FileOpenDialog($message, "C:\Windows\", "Images (*.jpg;*.bmp)", 1 + 4 )

If @error Then

MsgBox(4096,"","No File(s) chosen")

Else

$var = StringReplace($var, "|", @CRLF)

MsgBox(4096,"","You chose " & $var)

EndIf

[Marc]

AutoIt does not open Images by itself. You can, however, open it with your favorite image viewer, launched by AutoIt.

for example:

$picture = Inputbox ("Enter Picture", "Which picture shall be opened?","test.jpg")
Run(@ProgramFilesDir & "\irfanview\i_view32.exe " & $picture

For the ease of use, I'd recommend using a "real" FileOpen Dialogue,

let's say

$picture = FileOpenDialog ("Which picture shall be opened?","", "*.jpg")

Hope it helps...

Marc

[emmanuel]

AutoIt does not open Images by itself. You can, however, open it with your favorite image viewer, launched by AutoIt.

for example:

$picture = Inputbox ("Enter Picture", "Which picture shall be opened?","test.jpg")
Run(@ProgramFilesDir & "\irfanview\i_view32.exe " & $picture

For the ease of use, I'd recommend using a "real" FileOpen Dialogue,

let's say

$picture = FileOpenDialog ("Which picture shall be opened?","", "*.jpg")

Hope it helps...

Marc

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

well, you could have your script use SplashImageOn to display the picture, I think that Larry had posted some methods of getting a JPEG's dimensions which you could use to set the splash window's size...

SplashImageOn("TitleFoo", $picture)