ListBox to open files and preview images

[hsantos2001]

i am trying to make a ListBox so you can open a file. In the listbox is displayed the Subject of the file, not the name of the file. Also, i try that an image preview of the file is shown in the screen. I know that you put the image and set to invisible.

My question is that how do i make so you scroll down the ListBox, a previre is shown and only when the button OPEN is click, to open the file. How is it done? Any help would be appreciated

[yosik]

Hi,
Here is a project sample that answers your needs.
Good luck
Yossi

[hsantos2001]

thanks but there is a problem

thanks for the file but when i try to preview it, it does not do anything! when i press open. I have version 5.0 professional edition. Any idea?

[longedge]

Works fine for me - but you do need to select a picture (from the listbox) first until then the variable "Myfilename" isn't set.

Thanks very much Yosik - this is an action/object I've avoided until now but your example shows how easy and effective it is :yes (another one for my store )

[rhosk]

thanks for the file but when i try to preview it, it does not do anything! when i press open. I have version 5.0 professional edition. Any idea?

Try right-clicking the file and selecting "Save Target As...", then save it to your hard drive first. Then open it. I seem to have that problem here as well - it won't open apz's directly from this forum. Could be just the way our computers are setup is all.

[longedge]

Could also be a file association problem - e.g. if you double click a .jpg what happens?

[longedge]

Oh dear - there I go again - I thought you meant that you had looked at Yosik's example and when you click on the 'Open' button nothing happened. You mean that you can't open the .apz do you ?

How about making an 'embarrassed' smilie available - just for me

[hsantos2001]

i can open the file and see it in Autoplay and can preview (no error or warnings) and presents the window when I preview, only that nothing happens if i select or click open. What gives?

[longedge]

In that case - what happens if you simply double click on a .jpg file in say windows explorer?

(and are you sure that you have FIRST selected a file click on one of the 3 choices in the list box so that the preview picture changes - then click OPEN)

[hsantos2001]

it opens IrfanView with the file

[rhosk]

"So, what IS the problem?", ..he asks courteously.

[hsantos2001]

it is no a file association problem - e.g. if you double click a .jpg, it opens Irfanview in the Window Explorer but it does not open or change the image inside when i preview the project

[longedge]

OK - when you preview the project, you see a man with a phone and some tall buildings in the background. Click the 'down' arrow on the List Box until it says "Subject2" then click on the word Subject2.

When you've done that, the preview changes to a blue hand pointing at you. Now click the 'Open' button.

If I do the above in that order, then the blue hand picture opens in IrfanView (also my default viewer, same as yours).

[yosik]

I really don't know what the problem is Hsantos. It should work exactly that way.
Yossi

[hsantos2001]

Sorry for so much trouble. I did click the 'down' arrow on the List Box until it says "Subject#" BUT DID NOT click on the word Subject #. That was my mistake. sorry for the trouble. By the way, great example of listbox. Is there a place to download examples like that by keywords?