>>I need to manage scanned text in a C/S VFP 5 application. Storage (in binary memo fields) works great.
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>>Now i need to display the information to the user from a tool offering an adequate set of interactions (including minimal zooming and printing capabilities). The display OCX included with VFP 5.0 falls short.
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>>I recently discovered WANG series of controls delivered with VFP 5 and 6 ... the image edit controls looks pretty cool as it allows display and printing of different graphic format including the very usefull multi-page TIFF format.
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>>Alas i can not make it to work. I welcome help from UT members who succeeded at making the WANG control to work.
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>>Information or comments on commercial or freeware VFP-compatible OCX running TIFF and/or JPG would also be of great value!
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>I just started using the Wang controls as well - I originally had problems with the ImageScan control, it scanned OK but when I quit windows it crashed my system and I had to do a cold reboot. The problem was solved when I reinstalled the original (older version) TWAIN drivers that came with the control. I'm currently playing around with the ImageEdit and the Admin controls, loading, displaying and zooming the above scanned images - I don't seem to have any problems with these controls so far. What kind of problems are you experiencing?


I too have had problems with the WANG controls. The standard edition that ships with OSR2 and NT is good but it does not contain OCR capability. Belieive it or not the most stable combination of WANG products (IMHO) is to install the professional edition ($89.00) and then install the free version on top of it. This has proven to be stable enough for production applications. If you want some source code samples let me know.

Jon