Hello, I have searched through the RTI site and the manuals and

still cannot get .gif's to display. In the Create Event of a non-bound form I am

ctrlname=@WINDOW:".PICTURE"

X=Get_Property(ctrlname, "BITMAP")

Path=Set_Property(ctrlname,"BITMAP", "..\rv\c39003.BMP")

This works fine except that all the pictures are really gif's. If I change

the above to .gif it doesn't work.

I know I must be doing something wrong. What??

Also, I need to display a file that is in rtf (rich text format) in a

preview? window. Any ideas?

Thanks

BC,

RTF edit boxes have a very limited set of features, and I think they cannot display 8-bit characters!!!

If you're a Works member, go to the Works discussion and see recent postings by me, Blaise and Cameron. If you're not a member, I'll publish my findings here. But I thought I'd give RevSoft a chance to find out more first. Or I can mail you what I know right away.

If you can use RTF edit boxes despite their shortcomings, I'll be glad to help you get them to work.

- Oystein -

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BC,

I don't know what you're doing wrong, because here it works. (I use OI 3.61.)

I have a window with a bitmap control called "BITMAP". If I do the following script

OldVal=Set_Property( @Window : '.BITMAP', 'BITMAP', '..\..\arbeid\grieg.gif' )

from a button or the window CREATE handler the image is displayed.

I've tried PCX's too. Even JPG's work - even if the docs don't mention JPEG at all. (They are a little bit slow to display, though.)

So if your version of OI isn't too old look for that trivial error (wrong path/filename or something).

- Oystein -

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