What is the purpose of CxImage 3rdParty tool?

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DevJohan
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What is the purpose of CxImage 3rdParty tool?

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Hi everyone,

I have a question regarding the included 3rdparty code CxImage. What is this code used for? From some searches through the source the only reference to this I could find was in Tools/thumbs which seems to be some Windows platform specific project which isn't built. Is this project used and if so, what can it be used for?

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Johan
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Re: What is the purpose of CxImage 3rdParty tool?

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The CxImage is only used for a Windows thumbnailer. The utility "ThumbnailProvider" is a DLL which can be registered to Windows as a so called shell extension. This utility is able to create a preview image of an FCStd project file and CxImage is needed to convert the data into a format that Windows expects.
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Re: What is the purpose of CxImage 3rdParty tool?

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Ok,

Thanks for the answer

/Johan
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