ActiveX Control displaying thumbnails

[mangocinn]

I'm attempting to create an activeX Control that will display thumbnails of several images... the user will select the images that they will use to create slides for a powerpoint presentation. I'm fairly new to visual basic and I'm lost. I'm playing around with ImageList and ListView controls. Can anyone offer me some guidance?

 

[vb5prgrmr]

There is already a control that does part of what you want. Although it only works with Tiffs. It is the Wang/Kodak ImageThumb control. Take a look at it for ideas.

Good Luck

 

[mangocinn]

vb5prgrmr,
I was looking into that at first...but I heard that the Kodak thumb control only displays one image at a time...is that true? I need my control to display more than one image at a time...

 

[vb5prgrmr]

If you have a single page tiff then it will only display one image. If you have a multiple page tiff then it should display a thumb for each page/image.

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ThumbCount Property

Returns the total number of pages present in the current image file.

Available With

Imaging for Windows Professional Edition V1.0, V1.1, and V2.0
Imaging for Windows 95 and 98
Imaging for Windows NT 4.0
Applies To

Image Thumbnail control

Syntax

object.ThumbCount

Data Type Long

Remarks

Available at run-time as read-only.
ThumbCount is recalculated each time a valid image is specified, or when either of the methods InsertThumbs or DeleteThumbs is executed.
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Granted, this is just the count property but I think once you start playing around with it you will be able to use it for ideas as mentioned before.

Good Luck