Dim objAIL As cAdvancedImagery Dim hIMG As Long Dim objIMG As StdPicture ' Show the form Me.Visible = True DoEvents ' Initialize the AIL library Set objAIL =...
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bluescreenweasel
bluescreenwe...
Sep 12, 2008 7:18 am
Hi Kevin, Is there any way provide RPF file access in AIL?...
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Kevin Wilson
kwilson1997
Sep 12, 2008 7:20 am
My understanding is RPF files are "AutoCAD Raster-pattern Fill Definition" files... and that's beyond the scope of both FreeImage and the Advanced Imagery...
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bluescreenweasel
bluescreenwe...
Sep 12, 2008 4:45 pm
They are used in programs like 3dsmax in the 3d industry for compositing as you can add extra channels for data like velocity, zdepth and material ids. cheers...
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wketch53
Sep 16, 2008 3:59 pm
Hey folks, just started using the metadata_set_iptc method and the iptc data isn't being written to the .jpg image, even though everything seems to work. I'm...
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Kevin Wilson
kwilson1997
Sep 16, 2008 5:50 pm
I got it to work no problem. Here's what I did: 1) Downloaded and installed the latest version of REALbasic (v2008r3.1) 2) Started a new Windows Program 3)...
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bluescreenweasel
bluescreenwe...
Sep 17, 2008 11:26 pm
hi, i am using the resize function to make thumbnails of various filetypes, and this works for all types except high dynamic range .HDR files. Is it something...
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bluescreenweasel
bluescreenwe...
Sep 17, 2008 11:27 pm
the images i downloaded were from http://www.debevec.org/probes/ and they don't open in the pictureit utility either. i have tried a hdr from another source...
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bluescreenweasel
bluescreenwe...
Oct 7, 2008 3:56 pm
Has anyone managed to open a HDR with freeimage yet? Also, has anyone got any tips on the fastest methods of returning thumbnails using AIL?...
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Kevin Wilson
kwilson1997
Oct 7, 2008 5:18 pm
... This is the code you'd use to load an HDR image and resize it to 200 x 200 pixels (thumbnail size)... then convert it to an StdPicture ... Dim objAIL As...
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bluescreenweasel
bluescreenwe...
Oct 8, 2008 10:31 pm
And another one! I am using a com object interop (DSOfile) in a VB.net project, and in order to extract the thumbnail property of a file, I am using another ...
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bluescreenweasel
bluescreenwe...
Oct 8, 2008 10:31 pm
cheers Kevin, that's the same code i was using, with the same results. It just retuned a messagebox with "error -" so something odd was going wrong. And thanks...
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Kevin Wilson
kwilson1997
Oct 8, 2008 10:49 pm
... The "Convert_PictureToBitmap" function takes an StdPicture object in VB5/VB6, and takes a System.Drawing.Image object in .NET... then converts it to a...
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bluescreenweasel
bluescreenwe...
Oct 9, 2008 5:36 pm
what I needed was a "convert stdpicture to native dotnet image". The class you provided worked perfectly when i put it into my project. the thumbnail was...
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Kevin Wilson
kwilson1997
Oct 9, 2008 5:56 pm
... If all you need to do is convert an StdPicture object to a System.Drawing.Image object, then don't bother with AIL. It's not designed to do that, nor does...
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bluescreenweasel
bluescreenwe...
Oct 10, 2008 8:51 pm
hi kevin, i got that class from the previous post, and it works perfectly in a .net 2 project. I already had a reference to stdole.dll, however it's from...
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bluescreenweasel
bluescreenwe...
Oct 17, 2008 5:49 pm
I have been musing over this one for a while, as I need to display the transparency of Targa files. A picturebox in VB.net will render a 32-bit PNG correctly...
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bluescreenweasel
bluescreenwe...
Oct 17, 2008 5:50 pm
further to this one of your previous replies has a more elegant method than the one I just posted - If you want to use the transparent PNG approach but don't...
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Kevin Wilson
kwilson1997
Oct 17, 2008 6:59 pm
... method ... Keep in mind that saving to a Stream object in .NET is intended for things like pushing a custom image over the internet or network via an open...
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bluescreenweasel
bluescreenwe...
Oct 21, 2008 1:58 am
Great stuff kevin, many thanks. I guess i had the wrong idea about what filestreams were there. I couldn't work out why it asked for a file location string! ...
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dominiopt
Nov 13, 2008 3:42 pm
<info@...> The e-mail message could not be delivered because the user's mailfolder is full ??? Can someone send me a sample of Advanced Imagery...
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Kevin Wilson
kwilson1997
Nov 13, 2008 4:17 pm
... There was a problem with how that email account was setup. It should be fixed now. Sorry about that. ... When you purchase the Advanced Imagery Library,...
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bluescreenweasel
bluescreenwe...
Dec 13, 2008 11:32 pm
Hi There, I just moved over to Vista X64 edition. I have been developing utilities fine on Vista 32bit for some time now. I realise Freeimage is a 32bit dll,...
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Kevin Wilson
kwilson1997
Dec 13, 2008 11:34 pm
'System.DllNotFoundException' means that it can't find FreeImage.dll. Try putting into the WINDOWS/SYSTEM32 directory. If that doesn't work, try putting it in...
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bluescreenweasel
bluescreenwe...
Dec 22, 2008 4:14 am
Hello Kevin, I already had freeimage3.dll in system32, and I tried in the release bin folder also. i'm getting the same error? the vs intermediate window...
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bluescreenweasel
bluescreenwe...
Dec 22, 2008 4:15 am
I got it to work - The reason was the Freeimage.dll needed to be in the SysWOW64 folder, not the system32. Obviously an elementary error, but my logic was that...
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bluescreenweasel
bluescreenwe...
Dec 22, 2008 4:16 am
Okay, I got it now, I had my directories screwed up. It should be in SysWOW64 as WOW64 is the x86 emulator. I was confused as there is still a system32...
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bluescreenweasel
bluescreenwe...
Jan 5, 2009 5:21 pm
Hi kevin, just wondered if you had seen this blog post - http://cygon.nuclex.org/2008/05/27/freeimage-3-1-0-x64/ i will see if i can get AIL working with this...
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Kevin Wilson
kwilson1997
Jan 5, 2009 5:25 pm
Hello, Thanks for the heads up about the post and the efforts of the folks on this blog with FreeImage and 64-bit systems. I'll be honest, I haven't messed...
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bluescreenweasel
bluescreenwe...
Jan 6, 2009 9:02 pm
Hi Kevin, I'm an Autodesk 3dsmax user but am using AIL and VB.net to write class libraries that I can use within the program (examples here - ...
