I have a customer who has created a nice Filemaker PRO 6 database and
published it to the web.

They design and produce artwork for their customers

The database allows their customers to view a graphic (at the moment a JPG)
which is an image of some design work they are doing for them.

As this is supposed to be an online system the size of these graphic files
is crucial to the success of the application, and at the moment they are
either too big to be practical, or too small to be of any use !

What I really want to find for them is an activeX component that can be used
by a browser to deal with the graphic file a bit better. Ideally it would
give a "thumbnail" of the image when first viewed, without dragging the
whole image down. It would then allow you to zoom into the image,
downloading parts of the image on demand. The thumbnail could be a separate
file although I'd prefer not.

So my questions are:-

1) Can you bolt in activeX components to Filemaker PRO 6 web applications.
2) Does anyone know of such a component, or anything similar which may point
in the right direction.

TIA

Chris

hello
you could do exactly what you want if you use Php connected to the
Filemaker.
Otherwise using an active X for the end user is maybe not the right way
to achieve what you need.

Another way is to use the "scripting" system in Photoshop to create
2 differents size and save them in 2 separates folder.
You grab the filenames only and there you go.
The rest is in regular html if you want.

bye

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