>>Is there a way to take say a directory of photos and use VFP with an automation object to retain the original images and create a smaller "thumbnail" image?
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>>Has anyone done something like this or can someone recommend a good thumbnail creation utility that can be used outside of VFP in case the first action can not be accomplished?
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>Hi,
>We create VB wrapper of MS Picture ActiveX controls - FoxPictureBox.OCX, part of its functions is this. It processes all types images.

I have created the thumbnail image by pure vfp .I build my class:

the class consist of :
one contianer outside ,another inside container ,and a label inside ,the the image is put in the inside container..
so the difficult way is to retrieve the information of the image ,maybe use API functions.