Platform SDK Shell, Adding picture format to Windows viewer

Hello,

I am looking for technical information about adding a new picture format to
shimgvw.dll (Windows Picture and FAX Viewer) . Preferably, I would like to
have some source code to show me how. Specifically, I want to be able to
view targa pictures in the viewer; but I would like to add other format as
well.

At this site, http://greggman.com/pages/thumbplug_tga.htm I was able to
procure a plugin that work only for thumbnails in Explorer. Surely there is
a way to complete the work and add full support for the file format.

Thanks

Jean-Michel

I wanted to do this myself but I discovered that it is not possible because shimgvw uses GDI+, which does not currently support user-defined codecs.


The thumbnail mechanism is totally different to the image preview.

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Jim Barry, MVP for Windows SDK

I wanted to do this myself but I discovered that it is not possible because
shimgvw uses GDI+, which does not currently support user-defined codecs.

Thanks Barry, but I hope to find another answer to that. This is almost
absurd (wouldn't be a first in Windows though).

Jean-Michel

Don't get me started...

--
Jim Barry, MVP for Windows SDK

Sorry ! :-)





Don't get me started...

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Jim Barry, MVP for Windows SDK