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    How To Open A Jpg... And No I'm Not Insane

    Before people start giving responses like "you click on it" or something along those lines which frankly is the response i would give to this question, I am after something which should be simple but unless I'm missing something is stupidly hard. Basically I need either an app or a piece of code (c++, java or vbs, the only ones i know lol) that can open an image just to view it without any editing options and the main thing is, if this is possible, without having a visible window around it. This probably sounds like a stupid thing to want but I need to have a message pop up on the screen which will say a certain task has been completed, but rather then having a message box i want it to be in an image, I just cant find a way to have the image open without having a visible window around it. Its for a htpc which is why i dont really want the window to be seen. Hopefully this makes sense lol...

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    Re: How To Open A Jpg... And No I'm Not Insane

    open the picture then view it as a slideshow?

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    Re: How To Open A Jpg... And No I'm Not Insane

    the image is literally only going to be the size of a message box and i kinda wanted it to be able to appear over the top of whatevers running but at its actual size, not full screen if u see what i mean

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    Re: How To Open A Jpg... And No I'm Not Insane

    you mean like a splash screen?

    I think I made a hide window thing for you before

    Lemme guess for the HTPC?

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    Re: How To Open A Jpg... And No I'm Not Insane

    Firefox, IE... with no toolbars?

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    Re: How To Open A Jpg... And No I'm Not Insane

    I know OpenCV allows you to load and display images. It's an open source library from Intel and you can easily use it with C++. Only problem is, I think you'll end up with a title bar

    You can download it from here if you're interested:
    http://sourceforge.net/projects/opencvlibrary/

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    Re: How To Open A Jpg... And No I'm Not Insane

    Quote Originally Posted by crazyfool View Post
    Before people start giving responses like "you click on it" or something along those lines which frankly is the response i would give to this question, I am after something which should be simple but unless I'm missing something is stupidly hard. Basically I need either an app or a piece of code (c++, java or vbs, the only ones i know lol) that can open an image just to view it without any editing options and the main thing is, if this is possible, without having a visible window around it. This probably sounds like a stupid thing to want but I need to have a message pop up on the screen which will say a certain task has been completed, but rather then having a message box i want it to be in an image, I just cant find a way to have the image open without having a visible window around it. Its for a htpc which is why i dont really want the window to be seen. Hopefully this makes sense lol...
    irfanview can do that with abit of tweaking...

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    Re: How To Open A Jpg... And No I'm Not Insane

    /properly out of his depth, but thinking outside the box

    Could you make a SEE THROUGH picture that covers the whole screen and just has a the mesage in it.

    Like this one (set it as desktop to see what I mean)

    [img=http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/8203/cleardesktopiu0.th.jpg]

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    Re: How To Open A Jpg... And No I'm Not Insane

    Hi

    You could build a simple app in VB2008 to do this

    Create a new project
    Set the 'BackgoundImage' property of the Form to the picture you want (this sets up the image)
    Set the 'FormBorderStyle' property of the Form to 'None' (this will remove the frame)

    .. and thats it, now when you call this app, a popup Window will apear, no border with buttons or title bar, and all you see is the picture you set.

    You now need to decide how to close the app, will it
    - close on a mouse click? (set a click event handler to close the app with the line 'me.close()'
    - close if it sees a file apear in a location (search file path is use FileExists comman)
    - other?

    I can build a simple exe for you if you want... if you head over microsoft site and download Visual Basic 2008, you can play around with the source to adapt it to your needs.

    Hope this helps, if you need any clarification drop me a line

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