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Subject:	Help wanted from the programmers among the LUGNET group
Newsgroups:	lugnet.general
Date:	Fri, 17 Aug 2001 21:42:53 GMT
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Hi, I'm >> Trying << to write a ** SIMPLE ** VB (Visual Basic 5) utility to resize the bitmaps from the LDRAW/VEC directory into pre-defined (HEIGHT & WIDTH) bitmaps to place on AVERY labels (3 sizes pre-defined : J8160,J8159 & J8651 labels). Now, i checked the internet for some information abouth -- SAVING -- a bitmap, but couldn't find anything abouth it. Now, i guess (i'm almost sure abouth it) that there's NO VB5 command or function that saves a bitmap to disk (i have only a VB4 manual), and that i need the API calls to do so. I'm able to select the drive and directory where the bitmap files reside, but there's still a lot to do, for example resizing & rotating the bitmaps. But i think i found some usefull stuff for that. I hope it will work. The main idee behind the utility is that i want to print labels for my drawers with the Lego part on it. Some people use the stuff they found at the home page of ONYX (see discussion here : http://news.lugnet.com/general/?n=32411 ) but they have to do some time-spending efforts to create small pictures to place on the labels. If i succeed in my utility, then it would be verry simple to create smaller pictures, and it would be much faster than scanning, .... Is there anyone among the LUGNET users who can help me ? Any sugestions are welcome. Thanks in advance, Regards, Ludo Notice: I'm not a programmer / software engineer at all,have to figure out most of the things and i'm just someone who wants to try something. I hope it will work,and usefull for all of us.

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		Re: Help wanted from the programmers among the LUGNET group
(...) Hi Ludo, I use IrfanView (www.irfanview.com) for everything except actually drawing on an image. It has batch conversion where you can pick a bunch of files, specify any of a whole lot of functions to apply to them including resize to specific (...) (23 years ago, 17-Aug-01, to lugnet.general)

		Re: Help wanted from the programmers among the LUGNET group
Ludo, In VB you can use the Wang Image (Imaging for Windows) controls that come with Windows to resize your images. They have the ablity to edit, resize and other format functions, as well as view,print and scan images. For information on how to use (...) (23 years ago, 17-Aug-01, to lugnet.general)

		Re: Help wanted from the programmers among the LUGNET group
"ludo soete" <ludo.soete@village.uunet.be> wrote in message news:GI8EzH.Gn0@lugnet.com... (...) & (...) You have inspired me. I can produce a simple label printer by re-using code I've already written for my Lego CAD application. The user would (...) (23 years ago, 17-Aug-01, to lugnet.general)

		Re: Help wanted from the programmers among the LUGNET group
You could render them the size you want in pov-ray ... ludo soete <ludo.soete@village.uunet.be> wrote in message news:GI8EzH.Gn0@lugnet.com... (...) & (...) sure (...) bitmaps. (...) (23 years ago, 17-Aug-01, to lugnet.general)

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