Running IrfanView Commands With ActiveX

[rani]

How I can run irfan commands with activex dll ?

[Bhikkhu Pesala]

Please post in the right forum and use more accurate thread titles.

[rani]

irfanview as activex

run irfanview as activex
I asked this question before,

is there an option to run irfanview as activex ?
means to make instance of some .dll in irfanview folder ?
and use it as properties/methods ... ?

rgrds
rani

[Bhikkhu Pesala]

Since nobody answered before, maybe this time you could explain a bit better what you're trying to do. Your question means nothing at all to me, but I'm not a programmer.

[rani]

Hi Bikku

I mean
in MS (windows) environment, it's called COM objects,
if you(author) write a program as Activex DLL compile , from any program like: VB,C++ or else any prof. can activate th 'Irfan.dll' .
you can make new instance of the 'irfan.dll'
and aproach the properties and methods the author implemented as 'public'

this I mean ActiveX dll

rgrds
rani

[matera]

Still waiting for an explanation that makes sense.

[Lex-Mike]

I'm going to take a wild guess and say..... "Maybe Rani is looking for an Irfanview SDK or API?"

I'm not a programmer.... This is just a wild guess.

[Skippybox]

rani,

I'm not sure what you are asking for either. Why do you want to do this with IrfanView? Since IrfanView is closed source, I don't see how you could tap into its functionality other than maybe becoming a plugin developer. Even so, that won't probably be what your planning to do.

Don't understand what the 'irfan.dll' is either; IrfanView is just a single executable (EXE) program. Any other dll file is just an add-on.

[MItaly]

run irfanview as activex
I asked this question before,

is there an option to run irfanview as activex ?
means to make instance of some .dll in irfanview folder ?
and use it as properties/methods ... ?

No, you can't. IrfanView is not an ActiveX server, it's just a win32 native application that doesn't exposes any classes (and BTW I think it doesn't even makes large use of COM).

[Paulus Camillus]

Not API/SDK, but this can help...

Ah, I wanted to do the same thing: automating actions with IrfanView. Pressing a js-file on my computer, and zou-zou-zou, plenty of automated actions.

I came up with a workaround: launching automatically IrfanView from the shell object, and sending some "keys"

The example below save the content of the clipboard.
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var objShell = new ActiveXObject("WScript.Shell");

var strCommand = "\"C:\\Program Files\\IrfanView\\i_view32.exe\"";

objShell.Run(strCommand,1,false);

WScript.Sleep (1000);

objShell.SendKeys ("^v"); // PASTE : CTRL+V

WScript.Sleep (1000);

objShell.SendKeys ("s"); // SAVE AS

WScript.Sleep (1000);

objShell.SendKeys ("C:\\someFolder\\myfile.gif"); // FILE NAME

WScript.Sleep (1000);

objShell.SendKeys ("{ENTER}"); // COME ON! SAVE!

objShell.SendKeys ("y"); // OVERWRITE :-)

WScript.Sleep (1000);

objShell.SendKeys ("%{F4}"); // EXIT
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It's not very "neat" solution, but it worked for me, and I am happy of it. I hope it can work for you!

/Paul

[stefan]

Hi,

why don´t you use the commandline features in vbs or whatever?

steve