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

From "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam>
Newsgroups microsoft.public.scripting.vbscript
Subject Re: how to automate preview.preview ("windows picture and fax viewer" -> shimgvw) ?
Date 2022-01-18 08:48 -0500
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"R.Wieser" <address@not.available> wrote

| >  [id(7), helpstring("method ShowFile")] void ShowFile(
| >    BSTR bstrFileName,
| >    int iSelectCount
| >  );
|
| What I did was to read the type library from shimgvw.dll itself and 
convert
| it into human readable form.  The downside of that is that I don't see any
| variable names, just their types.
|

  It's possible that variable designates a slideshow list. Then again,
maybe not. That's the trouble with "self-discoverable COM. It's
really not. You need docs. (Zoom also takes a parameter
iSelectCount.)

  Also note, Show takes a variant but ShowFile takes
a string and long. It should work to send the values as
CStr(x), CLng(y) but it won't work if it's expecting a
null-delineated string.

 Have you tried Irfan View? :)

   With typelibs, I like the VB object viewer or my own
parser. But there's also the OLE-COB object viewer if
you have VS and like a verbose presentation. But that
basically just reconstitutes the typelib as an IDL file,
which is not very easily readable. I've only used it a
handful of times, to double-check an entry.

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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
          Re: how to automate preview.preview ("windows picture and fax viewer" -> shimgvw) ? JJ <jj4public@gmail.com> - 2022-01-18 13:55 +0700
            Re: how to automate preview.preview ("windows picture and fax viewer" -> shimgvw) ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2022-01-18 08:19 +0100
              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
                Re: how to automate preview.preview ("windows picture and fax viewer" -> shimgvw) ? JJ <jj4public@gmail.com> - 2022-01-19 15:37 +0700
                Re: how to automate preview.preview ("windows picture and fax viewer" -> shimgvw) ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2022-01-19 12:19 +0100
              Re: how to automate preview.preview ("windows picture and fax viewer" -> shimgvw) ? JJ <jj4public@gmail.com> - 2022-01-19 15:05 +0700
  Re: how to automate preview.preview ("windows picture and fax viewer" -> shimgvw) ? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2022-01-15 17:48 -0500

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