Is it possible to use programming to 'guide' the user to a specific folder when using the internal "Image Viewer" (image selector).

By default, the image viewer always starts the user in the default global path, but most of our photos are buried several sub-folder deep and it's time consuming to have to keep starting at the root folder for each record.

Macro's seemed to help a little, but only if going to the same set of folders each time.

Any thoughts?

Steve

I don't think so. We bounce around too much among the various folders.

Our photos are stored in folder names based on data from LE's, such as Manufacturer name, so if we could pull that data from the MFGR LE and have the image viewer "jump" to that folder, it would be great.

Even, at least, if the image viewer could remember the last folder that is had open, it would be a big time saver.

However, we LOVE the fact that we can "drag" a photo from ACDSee into Sesame and use programming to 'auto-insert' the photo....VERY HANDY FEATURE!

Any other thoughts?

Steve

Steve -

I have been reviewing old forum messages to see what I could "pick up" and I was intrigued by this topic.  I have a few questions for you.

First, I am most interested in how you finally resolved this matter.   Did you come up with a solution you are happy with?

Second, you spoke about ACDSee and, since I don't have a clue what that is, I was wondering whether you could elaborate in general and, more specifically, with how you have integrated it with Sesame.

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This too is intriquing.  I didn't know anything could be "dragged" into Sesame let alone that you could "auto-insert" the photo (although I am assuming you mean the path to the photo).  I am very eager to hear more about this.

I can tell you that I have been concerned about the path to pictures for some time.  Presently I am using separate folders for each application, so that each picture path takes me to the correct folder. 

If I want to see a picture that is not in the path I have used @ASynchShell to view the picture and alt/tab back and forth (if necessary) to Sesame.

For example I've used:

var n as int

n=@asynchshell("C:\sesame\pics\middle villagers\" + Mail Name + ".jpg") 

When I click on the element containing the code, it just automatically goes to the correct path (different than the one in my application default) and shows me the picture (of the appropriate person) in Windows Picture and Fax Viewer.

Given what I think you are saying I was wondering whether I could combine this type of programming with the "drag/insert" capabilities of ACDSee, for pictures that I want to "more permanently" capture in my Sesame application.

Thanks!

One more thing....we use the same image path for ALL our images, however, we have hundreds of subfolders 'beneath' our image path.

If you have a good idea of the filename you want to plug in or you know roughly which folder it is in, you can use programming similar to the example here:

http://www.lantica.com/Forum2/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=program;action=display;...

In my case, it 'popups' a list of all the files stored in a particular folder so the user can just click on the want they want to plug in (no preview, unfortunately.) Once the user plugs in an image, you can have the image name removed from that list so the user doesnt have to browse past it again, if you want.

Steve

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Very cool. 8)

I did not know that either.

Something I found though, is I don't need another program to preview the images. I simply have my folder options to display "Thumbnails", and drag the thumbnail into a Sesame text LE.

Hi Carl -

I appreciate the input and I realize that; however, that is not my concern.  

My concern is when a picture is in a path OTHER THAN the default path.  I would like the ability to "over-ride" the default path, by entering the FULL path to where the picture is.

Hope that's clear.

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Oh, yes, I see what you mean.

Well, in case anyone else that is following this thread, wants to drag thumbnails into a Sesame app that has the default image path set to the location where the images actually are located, here is the code to strip the path, leaving just the filename.

var vStr as string = ThisElement
var vPos as int

if @Instr(vStr, "\") > 0
      {
      vStr = @Repllas(vStr, "\", "^")
      vPos = @Instr(vStr, "^")
      vStr = @Mid(vStr, vPos + 1, 100)
      ThisElement = vStr
      }
 

Spencer,

You can use those images, that are in a directory other than your default image path, in the current version of Sesame. All you need to do is give Sesame the path from your default image path to that image. Let me explain. Let's assume you are using the deafult image path of C:\Sesame\Pics but you want to display an image that is on your C drive which is C:\MyPicture.jpg. What you need to have in your image field is ..\..\MyPicture.jpg

The first ..\ tells Sesame to look in the C:\Sesame directory and the second ..\ tells Sesame to look in C:\

With a little bit of programming you can have Sesame parse the complete path of C:\MyPicture.jpg into the relative path of ..\..\MyPicture.jpg  I'll give you a hint @ImagePath() on page 179 can tell you what your default image path is and how far down you have to go to get a relative path.

-Ray