extracting the thumbnail from digital photos?

[Richard Gaskin]

Malte Brill wrote:

 > did anyone of you try to extract a thumbnail image from
 > digital photos and use those in a liveCode app? Reason I
 > am asking is that I want to display downsized versions
 > of digital photos (many, average filesize 10MB) and
 > sizing those down is not pracicable as things stand atm...
 >
 > Did anybody code something like that already?

The RunRev team, in the engine:  see the new "at" option for the import 
and export snapshot commands, which lets you specify size to create a 
thumbnail.  I've found it surprisingly fast.

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