filepro GI - Bringing up documents and images with filePro

[John Esak]

David,

Dave at Sound Ideas has another productbesides Reface that does precisely
what you want. It attaches items, pictures to each filePro record, usually
brought in from a scan, and let's them be viewed through a standard filePro
looking browse. I do forget the name right now, but you can see it at
soundide4as.ocm. As I remember, the way he was pricing it was a little
strange, because it was based on the number of users who could actually use
the scanner and not the number of users who just wanted to view the attached
files at the press of a button. Maybe I'm wrong on this now... Or evern
then. However, I noted Dave sent a message directly to this list recently,
so hopefully, he is watching and can chime in himself.

Like Rick Hen, I can't tell which platform you are on... But if Unix...
Check out Anzio... Using their terminal emulator gives you options like
bringing up resources on the Windows side from within filePro by throwing a
command sequence at the windows o/s.  Also, FacetCorp provides this feature
in their FaccetWin terminal emulator, same concept, You just arrange it so a
pre-prescribed string gets put in front of whatever you want Windows to do,
and it follows the command... Such as bringing up a Word document or a
bitmap in whatever viewer you want.  Unless you use the Sound Ideas product,
however, neither of the two emulators will allow you to close that window...
You have to click on it's top right X pretty much.  I believe Dave's program
either opens or closes any document attached to the filePro record.   

If you have some programming smarts and the time to write the necessary
code, there is a product at fairlite.com that also lets you bring up or down
a photo or document by pointing to its URL.  I did a demo of this a very
long time ago now... Better to just read his software notes.

In the end run, you do know that in Windows or with one of those two
emulators above, there are myriads of ways to accomplish what you are asking
without buying any products. It is about as simple as just putting the name
of a document in a SYSTEM command to bring it up in whatever program is
assigned to the extension. (Or you can force it with the "start" command.)
Here are a couple things I do, like setting a chr value for the backslash
and then just concatenating the name with quotes around it to cover the
spaces.... Notice I am "escaping" the quotes" with a backslash.  Just
showing a couple different approaches.



@keyT  If: '@keyT
     Then: s(1)=chr("92")
     Then: c="\"C:" { s { "documents and Settings" { s { "root"{s{ "desktop"
{ S { "johnsing.bmp" { "\""
     Then: system c
     Then: end

This pops up the bitmap in the assigned viewer when the user presses the "T"
key. And, as I say, the user has to close it himself.

Good luck,

John

Survivor Series filePro CD's
www.valar.com/survivor_series








> -----Original Message-----
> From: filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com at lists.celestial.com 
> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com at lists.celestial.co
> m] On Behalf Of Richard Hane
> Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2010 4:42 PM
> To: David Rottkamp; filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Subject: Re: filepro GI
> 
> David,
> 
> In offering this I assume your workstations are Windows.
> 
> It would be easier to answer this if you explained what 
> server config you plan 
> on running off of.  If any flavor of an *nix system then 
> there are at least 6 
> different ways to do this.  If you are on a totally Windows 
> system then it drops 
> to about 4.
> 
> In either case, IMHO the worse choice would be filePro GI. 
> 
> If *nix then these will work on but not on a totally Windows....
> Reface
> Ajax
> STN faceBuilder (not yet released)
> 
> For *nix and Windows there is
> fpCGI
> fpWeb
> and several more I am not familar with
> 
> On a side note.  The graphics you mentioned I can not suggest 
> anything except 
> using one of the above.   
> 
> 
> That being said, if you want to bring up Word, Excel, pdf, 
> etc files; you can do 
> that with filePro alone.
> 
> Hope this doesn't just cause more confusion.
> 
> Rick Hane
> Controller
> Deluxe Stitcher Company Inc
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ________________________________
> From: David Rottkamp <davidrottkamp at echoes.net>
> To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Sent: Thu, July 22, 2010 2:02:59 PM
> Subject: filepro GI
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Need to get example of someone using filepro GI , so that 
> they can bring
> up images , text, word documents, attached to the record
> Looking to get a more windows feel to application , but also 
> looking to
> bring up on the filepro screen images, based on filenames
> Saved in the record for graphical and word information.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Dave Rottkamp
> 
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