Zooming

  • Thread starter Thread starter Ted
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Ted said:
Hello
Is there a plugin to enlarge most pics?
Webcams mostly.
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So is your question about zooming pictures displayed in web pages rendered
by IE, or how to zoom in on some streamed movie you present within a frame
or window?

I disabled the auto-sizing feature of IE6 because usually that means a large
pic gets squashed beyond recognition (i.e., it may contain text that becomes
unreadable or the objects in the pic become indistinct). However, there are
times when I want to zoom in on a pic. I use the WebAccessories powertoy
from IE5 which works okay in IE6.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/previous/webaccess/default.mspx
 
Hi Ted - Some additional info:

It's called Web Accessories - you can get it here:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/previous/webaccess/ie5wa.asp

It works fine in IE6 except that you'll need to do an F5 Refresh on the
blank page that the Images List click brings up to finally get them.
Thorsten Gudera has created both German and English "corrected" Versions of
imglist.htm which fix this. You can contact him here:
Thorsten.GuderaATt-online.de (replace AT with @ sign). For Toggle Images
(which you'll find on your Links toolbar), remember that you'll have to
refresh after toggling to see the effects on the current page. (BTW, if you
place a shortcut to it on your Quick Launch toolbar or wherever, you can
also use it to prevent spam HTML emails from "calling home".)

Here's also a fix for "Copy Location" courtesy of a poster nicknamed Caveman
I've verified that this works fine for Win2kPro and should for any other OS
as well:

"Use Notepad to open GRABURL.HTM (found usually in WINDOWS\WEB), and edit as

shown below:

[FIND:]------------------------------------------------

document.all.location.value = win.document.location.href;

[REPLACE WITH:]----------------------------------------

document.all.location.value = win.location.href;

[END]

(so, the only thing to do is removing ".document" from the line)"



Be aware also that there is a bug in the Zoom functions. The following is a
(modified)

quote of a previous posting by Alan Edwards of a previous quote by Ron

Vernon which outlines the fix:



"I have not checked recently if the error has been corrected.

Without looking at your attachments, I assume you have made

adjustments like this old post by Ron Vernon MVP, which I made myself.

------quote

This is a bug in the web accessories.

To fix it, use Notepad to open ZOOMIN.HTM (found usually in

WINDOWS\WEB ),

and edit it to read both image dimensions before setting any of them:

old contents:

....

h = parentwin.event.srcElement.height * 2;

parentwin.event.srcElement.height = h;

w = parentwin.event.srcElement.width * 2;

parentwin.event.srcElement.width = w;

....

new contents (the 3rd line in the fragment above moved up):

....

h = parentwin.event.srcElement.height * 2;

w = parentwin.event.srcElement.width * 2;

parentwin.event.srcElement.height = h;

parentwin.event.srcElement.width = w;

....

Do the same for ZOOMOUT.HTM changing '*' to a '/'

..

-----end quote

....Alan

Alan Edwards, MS MVP W95/98 Systems"



I've attached corrected versions of zoomout.htm and zoomin.htm since

they're fairly small. (If you have a firewall, they may get re-named

extensions - just change back to .htm) You can just place them in

\Windows\Web if you chose.
 
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