Thank Nicky, I agree, any quick solution would be a band-aid solution at best, although it might buy me a few months to set up a new approach. Javier, Javier Valencia, PE 913-915-3137 From: rbase-l@googlegroups.com <rbase-l@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of Nicky Avery Sent: Thursday, February 9, 2023 11:26 AM To: rbase-l@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [RBASE-L] - Displaying SWF pictures
Javier, The writing is on the wall here. Activex, IE, Flash and Shockwave are all dead. Even if you can band-aid your procedure for now, any solution dependent on them will likely be broken again by upgrades or deprecation and you will be in the same situation again. Sorry but I think it's time to move on. If you need your existing images (I believe you didn't specify video or still), there's a free online converter <https://onlineconvertfree.com/convert-format/swf-to-jpg/> for SWF stills (no idea if it works) and a subscription-based program called Filestar <https://filestar.com/> for SWF video. HTH Nicky On 2/9/2023 8:49 AM, javier.valen...@vtgonline.com <mailto:javier.valen...@vtgonline.com> wrote: Thanks R:azzak, I am getting back into doing work with R:base and shedding the rust off…like riding a bicycle, most comes back quickly. 😊 I will do some research on the active-x component approach, but at this time, it might be better to go on a new direction with up-to-date controls or risk being back at square one again soon. Any idea where to get the active-x control and I take it there are instruction on how to install in in the help files? I thought there was an option to globally change passwords, I must have been thinking about the global option to compress/uncompress forms. It would be a nice option to have so all forms can be globally assigned a password before delivery of a system to a client or globally removed during development. Javier, Javier Valencia, PE 913-915-3137 From: rbase-l@googlegroups.com <mailto:rbase-l@googlegroups.com> <mailto:rbase-l@googlegroups.com> <rbase-l@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of A. Razzak Memon Sent: Thursday, February 9, 2023 7:35 AM To: rbase-l@googlegroups.com <mailto:rbase-l@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: [RBASE-L] - Displaying SWF pictures Javier, Though IE is no longer supported and appears to be removed from the system, it is still there. The issue is whether the ActiveX control that is supposed to read the SWF file is installed. In RBASE, an IE session may be started in the browser control. The browser control has an option on whether to use IE or Edge as the engine. Another approach is to import the SWF ActiveX control to RBASE as a control (if present in the system). Then load the SWF using that imported ActiveX control. If the SWF reader is not present, then you can't do much about it. Adobe Flash is long gone. Regarding a way to globally remove the design password from all forms, you may contact the support and services team at R:BASE Technologies for such special service. Hope it helps! Very Best R:egards, Razzak On 2/8/2023 11:28 PM, javier.valen...@vtgonline.com <mailto:javier.valen...@vtgonline.com> wrote: I am working on an older application that uses SWF pictures generated by an external application that is run from line command. In the pasts I just placed a web browser in the form, and it displayed the SWF picture without any problem; I believe it used the MS Explorer. Apparently, the new browser, Edge, no longer supports SWF files, nor do any of the other browsers as the format has been discontinued. I tried several format converters, but none seems to work with this flavor of SWF. Is there anyway to display a SWF file in and R:Base form? I might be able to get the picture/graph as an Excel graph. Is there any way to display an Excel graph in a form. The last option would be to get the graph as a data set and the use R:Charts to generate the graph. Since the graph is only used in one form, seems like R:Charts would be an overkill. On a separate note, is there a way to globally remove the design password from all forms? I seem to remember there was a way to do it but not having used R:base for a while now, I am somewhat rusty. I have over 200 forms and I would prefer to do them all at once; I seem to remember adding the design password to all the forms globally…but I could be wrong.. ☹ Any ideas or suggestion will be appreciated. Javier, Javier Valencia, PE 913-915-3137 -- For group guidelines, visit http://www.rbase.com/support/usersgroup_guidelines.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBASE-L" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbase-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com <mailto:rbase-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com> . 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