Comments on: Scaling Images in a Web Viewer

By: Steve Clews

Steve Clews — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:47:20 +0000

I have been looking for a method to import pics to FMPro on the fly when we upload data to our website.

This is better I don’t have to paste the pics or import them into FMPro they just arrive as soon as I have uploaded the data to the site.

Magic
many thanks

Steve

By: Simon

Simon — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 03:30:03 +0000

@Frank: I believe the DOCTYPE is causing IE6 to use quirks mode rather than standards mode and therefore ignore the margin:auto on XP. Removing this should help. You will also need to add a text-align:center to the body style s well.

Hope this helps.

By: Geoff Coffey

Geoff Coffey — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 04:56:40 +0000

@steve: I may not be understanding your question, but I believe you can simply put your Replace calculation in the web viewer calculation like this:

"http://myserver/scale-image.html?" &
Replace (inv_data::IMAGE_NM; 1 ; 19 ; â€œhttp://www.test.com/images/â€)

Does that help?

By: steve

steve — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 20:58:17 +0000

Interesting thought, I have a webviewer configured to display an image dynamically based on an image location file name from another field in my database.

Replace (inv_data::IMAGE_NM; 1 ; 19 ; “http://www.test.com/images/” )

I need to resize them, and this seems like the best solution, but not sure how to do so dynamically based on the above calculation.

Any insight? Thanks

By: Matthew Brandon

Matthew Brandon — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 22:32:50 +0000

I’ve tried this out and it works great when viewing directly in Safari but when I try to look at the same page in filemaker, I get a scroll bar. I am wondering if this has something to do with the new auto resize feature in FMP. It works great with auto resize turned off. The problem is that I need users to be able to resize the FMP window and have the content auto adjust to that window.

Any solutions?

By: Frank Fulchiero

Frank Fulchiero — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:23:38 +0000

Works fine in FMP9 on OSX, but in FMP9/WinXP, if the image is taller than it is wide, I do not get the scale effect, just the upper left corner. The image scaling only works if the original is wider than tall.
Has anyone else noticed this, or is it just me?

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By: Peter Cook

Peter Cook — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 17:10:47 +0000

I tried your technique and it works great on a Mac with the image in the Web Viewer scaling OK in Safari. But I get no image at all when using exactly the same Web Viewer calculation viewed in IE 6 in Windows. Any ideas why?

By: Geoff Coffey

Geoff Coffey — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 16:25:41 +0000

@sam: I did the same exact thing after the comment was made. But I never got around to writing it up. It’s a bit of a hack, but it works, and is kind of cool. If you send me a link to your file, I can add it to your comment.

By: Sam Barnum

Sam Barnum — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 21:41:49 +0000

Using the web viewer to copy a layout is a very cool idea.

I just tried a really rough draft, and it seems like it worked! Just make a layout where the only thing on it is a web viewer. Make sure the web viewer is a reasonable size, so the contents of the web page don’t get truncated. Then enter preview mode and copy to the clipboard, and you’ve got a screenshot of the web page. Paste this into a container field, and it will show at whatever size the container field is.