A Genie Style Dialog with Tabs
A Simple Owner-Draw List Box
A Tutorial in Xdialog
Accelerator Keys
Action Scripting - Xdialog Genie
Adding a Mask to an Xdialog Field
Adding Help To a Dialog Box
Adding Right-Click Context Menus
Address Dialog - Adding Blank Lines
Address Dialog - Column Formatting
Address Dialog - Margins
Address Dialog - Spacing of Controls
ADO ODBC Form Genie
ADO Record Set Genie
Advanced Formatting Dialog Box
Advanced Text Properties Dialog
Anchor Buttons - Exact Positioning of Buttons
ASK Variables
Auto-Advance to Next Control When Current Control is Full
Auto-Selecting Text in a Text Box
Bar Graph
Building Connection Strings
Calling the Generic Find Replace Goto Dialog Box
Cell Spillover
Closing Modeless Dialog Boxes Automatically
Code Library
Colored Dynamic Text
Colored Static Text
Column Mapping Dialog
Computing the Size of an Embedded Dialog
Conditional Expression Builder
Conditionally Disabling Controls
Conditionally Displaying Panes on a Tab Control
Conditionally Replacing controls
Controlling Insertion Point and Selected Text in a Text Object
Controlling the Font of Static Text
Controlling the Layout of Controls
Controlling the Layout of Dialogs
Controls
Creating a Genie Dialog Box
Customer Information Input
Customize Xdialog Genie Dialog Boxes
Define Choices Dialog Box
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Define Picture Dialog Box
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Deriving the Font to Use Dynamically
Dialog Box for User Sign-in
Dialog Boxes
Display an Xdialog Box
Display Xdialog Form based on ADO ODBC Data
Displaying Data from a Pointer Array in a Dialog Box
Displaying Data in Columns
Displaying Dynamic Help When Clicking on a Label
Displaying Time Variables
Drive Select Dialog Box
Dynamic Dialog Box Titles
Edit Variable Dialog Box
Embedded Dialog Boxes
Embedded HTML in Xdialog
Examples on Disk
Explorer Style Dialog Box
Font Dialog
Frames
Hanging Indents
How to trap mouse events in an xdialog
How to Use Parameters or Variables in a Query Expression
HTML Editor Style Xdialog Example
Insert Image Dialog Box
Internet Browser Style Xdialog Example
Introduction
Introduction to Dialog Box Events
Keeping a Dialog Open after Processing Events
Lines
Linking Modeless Dialogs
Manage Favorites Dialog Box
MDI Xdialog Framework
Modeless Dialog Boxes
Modifying Xdialogs at Run-time Before the Xdialog is Rendered
Move to Next Control on ENTER
Multi-Column List Box
Multi-line and Word-wrapped Text Boxes
Multiple Instances of a Modeless Dialog Box
Multiple Selection List Style Xdialog
Opening a Dialog Box
Owner Draw O Directive Command Summary
Owner-Draw HTML ListBoxes
Primary Index or Query Dialog Box - User Manual
Property-Grid Style Dialog
Property-Sheet Style Dialog
Reading Variables in External Modeless Xdialogs
Regions
Resizable List Box Columns
Returning Multiple Values from an Xdialog
Rollup Modeless Dialog Boxes
Setting the Initial Focus
Simple Edit Control
Simple Embedded Dialog Box
Simple Modeless Dialog Box
Smart Field Controls
Smart Fields in Xdialogs
Specifying Colors
Specifying the Font
Specifying the Font Color
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Static Text Genie
Stretchable Windows with Resizable Regions
Support for Hotspots on Images
Text Box Formatting Codes
The Code Editor Control
The Help Command
Transforming Data in a List Box
Un-Dimmed Variables Dialog Box
Understanding the Grid Nature of a Dialog Box
Understanding the Owner-Draw Operators
User-Defined Popup Help in Xdialog
Using Crystal Reports with Alpha Anywhere
Using Events to Modify Arrays used in Dialog Box Controls
Using HTML in an Xdialog
Using Images from External Files
Using the KillFocus Event
Using the Kodak Image Control
Using Xdialog to Filter a Report
Using Xdialog to Prompt for Variables
Web Browser Window
What is a Dialog Event?
What is a Dialog?
Working with Images on Dialogs
Working with Images that Contain Multiple Sub-Images
Working with Pointer Arrays
Working with UTF-8 Data
Xdialog
Xdialog Genie
Xdialog Simplified ListView Syntax Fonts
Xdialog Tree Control Custom Colors for Tree Items
Xdialog, HTML, and JavaScript - a Powerful Combination

Using Images from External Files

Description

Here is an example showing how to use images from external files.

image_name = a5.Get_exe_Path()+ chr(92) + "learning xdialog\person1.jpg"
f = file.open(image_name, FILE_RO_SHARED)
ui_bitmap_load("temp",f.readb(10000000))
f.close()
ui_dlg_box("Image","{image=temp} | ")
ui_bitmap_drop("temp")

Placing an Image from a File

Limitations

Desktop applications only