Picture and Fax viewer

[mdmackillop]

Does anyone know a shell command to open Windows Picture and Fax Viewer. I wanting pass a bmp file name, to view it. Any other solutions welcome.
Regards
MD

[Marcster]

This in Windows Run box will open it:
rundll32.exe %SystemRoot%\system32\shimgvw.dll,ImageView_Fullscreen

Marcster.

[Marcster]

To open a picture file say, C:\test.bmp:
rundll32.exe %SystemRoot%\system32\shimgvw.dll,ImageView_Fullscreen C:\test.bmp

Looking at %SystemRoot%\system32\shimgvw.dll in the Object Browser
There's a Class called Preview with a method:
ShowFile(bstrFileName As String, iSelectCount As Long)

There's other methods, events etc which look like
you can manipulate with VBA,
but as yet, unable to get it to work.

HTH,

Marcster.

[mdmackillop]

Thanks Marcster,
I'll have a look at these.
Regards
Malcolm

[Marcster]

If you add the
Preview Class
to Additional Controls on the Toolbox in the VBE
you can add the Picture Viewer to a user form
whereby you can maniuplate it.
For example:
Me.Preview1.ShowFile "c:\test.bmp", 1

Marcster.