Picture resizing

[cogier]

My camera produces up to 10Meg photos. I have discovered that FileChooser refuses to display a preview of large images. I can get the image into a PictureBox, but if I want to display many at once, the amount of memory used can cause my PC to lock up! If I reduce the size of the photos to less than a Meg everything is fine.



Is there a way to reduce the picture inside a PictureBox without having to reduce the original photo? The Picture.Resize() cuts the picture which is not what I am looking for.

Unrelated discovery: -

In a post on this site If you wrap an image with a link, the image become clickable. Try clicking the image above.

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[url=http://link][img]http://MyPicture[/img][/url]

[BruceSteers]

I got Benoit to add a FileView.MaxPreviewSize property
http://gambaswiki.org/wiki/comp/gb.form ... reviewsize

Either set max size manually.

Or set to zero to use the default 4mb that used to be the only max size before I moaned about it

Set it to -1 for unlimited size .

  FileChooser1.FileView.MaxPreviewSize = -1

[cogier]

Thanks Bruce. I'll check this out tomorrow.

EDIT 20/08/2023

That's done it! Thanks.

[BruceSteers]

Thanks Bruce. I'll check this out tomorrow.

EDIT 20/08/2023

That's done it! Thanks.

No worries.
I had the same problem once.

Benoit is pretty cool though when it comes to suggesting good ideas.
After adding this he has made a few more updates to fileview to improve previewing.