Re: Graphic interface to 400

[Martin Rowe <martin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 16 March 2003 1:16 pm, Rick Rayburn wrote:
> A client of mine wishes to be able to display a graphic image of a
> selected type of merchandise by simply positioning the cursor on an
> item# and pressing a function key or by typing in a character string to
> obtain a similiar result. Does anyone know of any software that can
> handle this RELIABLY or even a sample of the code (API?) that might
> accomplish the same thing? I know there are products that use the mouse
> (right clicking) to read a character string through the Windows
> environment (open a window with the graphic displayed through your
> browser) but that may be too restricting should we decide to get a
> little more flexible with the process.

Hi Rick

Client Access has a handy trick where a URL (which istr needs the http://) 
can be double clicked to lauch the link in your browser. Maybe have a 
option that pops up a window with the url to the item picture, if it's 
too cumbersome to include on the screen. Another alternative might be 
RUNRMTCMD invoked with a 'start http://path/to/image' sent to the client. 

Regards, Martin
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