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Re: how to automate preview.preview ("windows picture and fax viewer" -> shimgvw) ?

From	"R.Wieser" <address@not.available>
Newsgroups	microsoft.public.scripting.vbscript
Subject	Re: how to automate preview.preview ("windows picture and fax viewer" -> shimgvw) ?
Date	2022-01-16 10:02 +0100
Organization	Aioe.org NNTP Server
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Mayayana,

> I'm guessing it's just the image handling code for an EXE, but
> I've never used the Windows Picture Viewer.

Not quite.  Its one of those Windows frankenstein mosters.  The registry
shows it for a JPG images "open" verb as follows :

rundll32.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\shimgvw.dll,ImageView_Fullscreen %1

Yeah, its a DLL that gets loaded after which its "ImageView_Fullscreen"
entry gets called (with the image filename as its argument)

... and I just see (from your next message) you already found that yourself.

But showing an image is not the problem.   As stated in my initial message, 
I want to be able to control the effect of the "next" and "previous" 
buttons - showing a limited set outof all present in a folder, or show them 
in a pre-programmed order.

> I don't see any reason to think the DLL is going to give you a window.

:-)  See the above invocation.   The DLL itself is quite capable of doing
so.

> Another option would be [snip]

I'm sorry, but I'm currently not looking for those.  Dropping something
because I cannot instantly get it to work (when it looks like it
could/should) is not my thing.   Also known as the "stubborn" trait. :-)

Regards,
Rudy Wieser

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how to automate preview.preview ("windows picture and fax viewer" -> shimgvw) ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2022-01-14 10:39 +0100
  Re: how to automate preview.preview ("windows picture and fax viewer" -> shimgvw) ? JJ <jj4public@gmail.com> - 2022-01-14 19:01 +0700
    Re: how to automate preview.preview ("windows picture and fax viewer" -> shimgvw) ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2022-01-14 20:24 +0100
      Re: how to automate preview.preview ("windows picture and fax viewer" -> shimgvw) ? JJ <jj4public@gmail.com> - 2022-01-16 03:26 +0700
  Re: how to automate preview.preview ("windows picture and fax viewer" -> shimgvw) ? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2022-01-15 17:38 -0500
    Re: how to automate preview.preview ("windows picture and fax viewer" -> shimgvw) ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2022-01-16 10:02 +0100
      Re: how to automate preview.preview ("windows picture and fax viewer" -> shimgvw) ? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2022-01-16 08:55 -0500
        Re: how to automate preview.preview ("windows picture and fax viewer" -> shimgvw) ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2022-01-16 15:47 +0100
      Re: how to automate preview.preview ("windows picture and fax viewer" -> shimgvw) ? JJ <jj4public@gmail.com> - 2022-01-17 10:45 +0700
        Re: how to automate preview.preview ("windows picture and fax viewer" -> shimgvw) ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2022-01-17 10:58 +0100
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              Re: how to automate preview.preview ("windows picture and fax viewer" -> shimgvw) ? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2022-01-18 08:48 -0500
                Re: how to automate preview.preview ("windows picture and fax viewer" -> shimgvw) ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2022-01-18 17:41 +0100
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                Re: how to automate preview.preview ("windows picture and fax viewer" -> shimgvw) ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2022-01-19 12:19 +0100
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