Example for Getting Images from a Folder

pakapaka · **Posted:** June 20th, 2015, 12:52 am

Hi Guys
.....well I have just wasted over 6 hours of my life looking for a solution to a simple procedure.
Hard to believe but I went thru all 41 pages of the Basic Section in this forum, searched thru the Opus Script Help file and downloaded anything that remotely looked useful...I got zilch

Can Anybody Show Me How To Do This?
1. User clicks on a Browse button to display the "Browse folder" dialog box
2. User selects a folder that contains an unknown number of images
2. User selects 1 or more images from the selected folder
3. The selected images are copied to a specific project folder.
4. The selected images are displayed as thumbnails on an Opus page

If this functionality is too complex...then
5. How can I just grab 6-8 images from a folder and display these images on a page.

A step-by-step set of instructions with sample code would be very helpful.
Be gentle, I dont know how to code, but I can modify exisitng scripts to suit my needs.

I am using Opus Version 9 (..or to be more accurate "trying to use Opus9")
Thanks
Pakapaka

Lar_123 · **Posted:** June 20th, 2015, 5:05 am

pakapaka wrote:

2. User selects 1 or more images from the selected folder

How do you think this should be done?
for example, to do this in Windows Explorer one would have to Ctrl+click on each image file.
...is that an acceptable step for your Users?

and then, once all those files are selected, Shift+Right_Click allows selecting the option to Copy Path.
...is that an acceptable User action here?

I suspect what you want done can be done, but it is not trivial. I've been able to bring up and view a list of files for a folder in DocView, but it shows the filenames by default. I have not figured out how to show Icons without manually changing the View options. So I think there are some hurdles here.

JATBorges · **Posted:** June 20th, 2015, 11:31 am

I think the attached file you can help

pakapaka · **Posted:** June 20th, 2015, 12:06 pm

hi JATBorges
The file you sent is very helpful..many thanks for this

However the image placeholder remains BLACK and does not update to show the "<stringDIR>" file.
I assume I need to use the SetImage function so I added a script after your CopyFile function.
The script I added is:

Code:

IntroGraph.SetImage(<SYSTEM_PUBLICATION_DIR>\images\stringDIR)

I got his script from the Opus Script Help file.
It was dissapointing to learn that this attempt did not work.
Can you tell me what I am doing wrong?
Thanks
Pakapaka

pakapaka · **Posted:** June 20th, 2015, 6:38 pm

Hi
I used the example you sent and created a very simple example porject of what I want to do.
Click the UPDATE IMAGES button...it is pretty straight forward what I am trying to do.

Any help is apprciated.
Yours
Pakapaka

mackavi · **Posted:** June 21st, 2015, 8:53 am

Change the function in the example to:

Code:

function newPIC(){
tmpArray = file.split("\\");
stringDIR = tmpArray[tmpArray.length-1];
}

</mack>

pakapaka · **Posted:** June 21st, 2015, 10:23 am

Hi Mack
Works like a dream on the example sent by JATBorges.
,,,I will now try to implement this on the Slideshow example I posted and let you know how I do.
Many thanks, I really appreciate your time
Yours
Martin

pakapaka · **Posted:** June 21st, 2015, 4:22 pm

Hi Guys
Updated the project file...the "Copy Button" so it now gets updated with the selected image.
This is exactly the functionality I needed...so many thanks for the help.

See attached project file

Two questions
1. How can I create "multiple instances" so that I can place different images/buttons on the same page.
2. Can I set a "DEFAULT" image for the button (instead of the boring gray) when the page is displayed (before I run the CopyImage action)

Thanks
Pakapaka

JATBorges · **Posted:** June 21st, 2015, 5:34 pm

I think this helps

pakapaka · **Posted:** June 21st, 2015, 7:34 pm

I am speechless
I uploaded 5 images named "default1....default5" to the images directory and it works great!!
Does this mean I passed your little test for non-programmers :wink:

THANK YOU JATBorges and MACK for your invaluable help.
I know you guys are probablly very busy so I really do appreciate your time.

One yukki issue
When the Browse dialog is displayed and the user Clicks "CANCEL" an error message is displayed.
Can you get rid of it

Yours
Pakapaka

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