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Re: Help wanted from the programmers among the LUGNET group
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lugnet.general
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Fri, 17 Aug 2001 22:46:14 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Ludo Soete writes:
> Hi,
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> 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.
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> 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, ....
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> Is there anyone among the LUGNET users who can help me ?
> Any sugestions are welcome.
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> Thanks in advance,
> Regards,
> Ludo
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> 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.
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 height x width or percentage, and hit Start. You might want to
give a try, save yourself a lot of aggravation. (It's free, too.)
Cheers, Heather
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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 (...) (23 years ago, 17-Aug-01, to lugnet.general)
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