Re: Three Questions - Can't find through searching...

1.  I'm extremely new to image viewing, so bare with me. 

We want to replicate an ACDSee type of functionality, where you find a folder containing pictures and by clicking the next button, you see the next picture in the file.  Does LEAD have any examples of where they've done something like this in .NET?  I've searched the forums with no luck.

2.  If I have to write this functionality myself, does anyone have an example of where they've cached the next picture so that when the next button is clicked, the pictures seems to load instantaneously? 

3.  Is there an image viewer control that I can drag and drop on the form?  The examples that they have, the control is being created on the fly.

I appreciate any examples or references.  Again, I'm new, so don't beat me up too bad.  I -did- search the forums.

Neither of your answers is really what I'm looking for...

I'm just trying to find a simple example of how to load files into the image object so that I can display them on the viewer. 

I've tried loading an image file using the following:

//Previous declared
Image = codecs.load(fileName);

When I try running this, I get an invalid file format error.  I -don't- get this error when trying to load the same image through the example that's sent with the evalulation version of LEAD software.  Is there a property that I need to set on the codec to allow jpgs?  I don't see such a thing in your example.

The "drag and drop" that I'm referring to has to do with an actual control that I can drag and drop on my .NET IDE.  When I've tried to find a viewer control in .NET, there's not one appearing (or any LEAD control).

Thanks for any other help.

I am absolutely at my wits end.  I stripped LEAD's C# Basic Features Demo down to the following, and it opens the file.

public bool Load(IWin32Window owner, RasterCodecs codecs, bool autoLoad)

FileName = "C:\\Images\\Test-00001.JPG";

int firstPage = 1;

int lastPage = 1;

_image = codecs.Load(FileName, 0, CodecsLoadByteOrder.BgrOrGray, firstPage, lastPage);

return true;

This works great, but when I try to do something similar in my own application, I get an "invalid file format" when I try to load.  WTF???????!!??!?!????????????  This is all that I'm trying to do:

private void LoadImage(string fileName)

IRasterImage Image;

codecs = new RasterCodecs();

Image = codecs.Load(fileName, 0, CodecsLoadByteOrder.BgrOrGray, 1,1);

Again, I'm working in C#.NET 2005, Eval vs. 14.5...  What else is there to know?

Y'all should pay me to work for you.

Here's what I figured out.  The RasterCodecs.CodecsPath has to be point to the location of the codec dlls, it doesn't know where they're at on its own.  All I had to do was do the following and my pictures now load:

RasterCodecs.CodecsPath = @"C:\Program Files\LEAD Technologies, Inc\LEADTOOLS EVAL 14.5\Bin\Dotnet\v20";

Thank gawd I've figured that out, it only took about three hours to track down WHY I couldn't load a picture.  Sorry to vent, but that was a frustrating find...