X64 windows is becoming more and more polular platform. Htmlsnapshot component has supported html to image on windows x64 platform along with the industry trend. There are mainly four x64 windows: XP x64,  Vista X64, Windows 2003 x64, Windows 2008 X64.  The first two are client platform while the last two are server version. To convert html [...]

For Windows 2000. You need to install Speech SDK first to use SAPI 5 voice http://download.microsoft.com/download/speechSDK/SDK/5.1/WXP/EN-US/speechsdk51.exe By default, Windows supports SAPI4 voice only

Here is detailed example on how to use html2image linux on Ubuntu 64 bit (Ubuntu 7.10 - the Gutsy Gibbon) This serves as a good example on how to use html2image. Other 64 bit Linux distribution can be done similarly. 1. Install Ubuntu 64 2. Login into the server (you can use the text mode login here. This [...]

Here are a more complete examples of using htmlsnapshot to convert html to image with php on Windows. Note the following things: 1. You copy/paste the below code into test.php and run on command line    php.exe test.php  2. Yon can see it uses GetErrorCode to handle errors to make your code more robust. <?php $url = “http://google.com/“; $path = “.\\”; $img = “1.jpg”; $timg [...]

Cold fusion is a CGI language like asp, php. Sometimes, you may need to call an external exe in coldfusion. It is absolutely doable in coldfusion. For exmaple, if you want to call cscript.exe, here is what you can do: <cfexecute name = “C:\Windows\System32\cscript.exe”   arguments = “pdfmerge.vbs  c:\1.pdf|c:\2.pdf  c:\out.pdf”   outputFile = “C:\Temp\output.txt”   timeout = “100″> </cfexecute>

You may need to run a command line utility to convert html or url to image. Here is a handy script that converts url/html to image with our award winning htmlsnapshot product. Save the below code into a script snapurl.vbs (Or you can find this script in htmlsnapshot\demo\vbscript) set args = WScript.Arguments num = args.Count if num <> 2 then    [...]

Silverlight is the new web authoring technology proposed by Microsoft. It is implemented as an ActiveX like the Flash. It can be used to build interactive, vector based web pages. To convert such web page into image, you can do it with our award winning htmlsnapshot product.

Firefox debug version has a lot of assertion warnings. I felt confused that they are not got fixed even in latest version 3 A way to disable the warning is here: When making a debug build of Firefox from the CVS trunk you get lots of warning boxes appearing when it runs. These warnings are about failed [...]

Affiliate Review Website. Create a website that reviews affiliate products like make money online programs, web hosting services etc. Run it on Wordpress and update it everyday with affiliate feeds or articles. How much you’ll make depends on how thick (amount of content) the website is. Product Fan Blog. Create a Wordpress blog around a popular [...]

Manage WordPress Comments Subscribe To Comments - Allows readers to recieve notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry. WP AJAX Edit Comments - Allows users and admins to edit comments on a post inline using AJAX. Get Recent Comments - displays excerpts of the most recent comments and/or trackbacks that have been posted to the [...]

 Htmlsnapshot now supports converting html into multiple page tiff files. here is the sample code. You just need to specify the page width in pixel. The component will save the image into a multipage tif. ‘demo html to multipage tiff generation function Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject(”WScript.Shell”) ‘Declare object Dim snap Set snap = CreateObject(”HTMLSNAP2.HtmlSnap.1″) snap.SetTimeOut CLng(200000) snap.SnapUrl “http://www.google.com/“, “google.tiff” ‘Set CCITT3 encoding for [...]

It is possibe to use html CSS sheet with SnapHtmlString when converting a html string to image.  The trick is to store the css in a local file and refer to it in the html string like below: <link href=”file://c:/Styles.css” rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css” /> Then you can use htmlsnapshot to capture the html string into image with the [...]

I tried to install 64 bit fedora 8 today. The installation went smoothly. When I came to the login interface, the mouse pointer was invisible. It was so frustrated. I did some search on internet and  found that this problem appears on 64 bit linux with Nvida display card. So it may be a driver issue. Fortunately there [...]

Disabling Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration Preface: Windows Server 2003 shipped with security locked down by default.  Part of this locking down is Internet Explorer Enhanced Security which is an extra layer of protection when surfing the internet using Internet Explorer (more information can be found by going here on a Windows Server 2003 [test] machine).  Some [...]

I meet the issue on both Vista and XP. When I open several windows (maybe 10),  the system begins to show problem. The context menu cannot open or any new GUI program cannot run etc. I did a search today and found many people met this issue.  A recommended fix is below:  To make this change, navigate [...]

Recently I played with php xml rpc library. My main goal is to post articles from php to wordpress blog. There are a lot of implementation on the web. First I tried the one on sourceforge. http://phpxmlrpc.sourceforge.net/ I use the library to develop method to post a new articles or edit an existing article on a wordpress blog. The sample [...]

How do I register the component? Answer: Once you buy the component, a registration code will be sent to you by email. After creating an object instance of Active Audio Record in your favorite programming languages, calling the SetCode method with the code you got by email before recording. In this way, every limitation in trial [...]

Today I tried to install php, mysql and phpMyadmin on Vista IIS7. After several hours, I finally got it through. Here are some tips: 1. Download latest php, mysql from their website  I use php 5.2.4, mysql 5.0,. 2. Install IIS service on Vista by adding Windows features. Note that, you need to choose the IIS components ISAPI etc [...]

From http://delphi.about.com/od/windowsshellapi/l/aa040803a.htm   Registering DLL and ActiveX controls from code    How to register (and unregister) OLE controls such as dynamic-link library (DLL) or ActiveX Controls (OCX) files from a Delphi application.          One of the features that make Delphi so popular is that when it comes to project deployment, you as a developer (in most cases) only need to send [...]

It is good to keep some programming tips we used. To get the filename of the application, most of the time you can call: sFileName := Application.ExeName; // or sFileName := ParamStr(0); Perhaps you are working on a DLL and are interested in the filename of the DLL rather than the filename of the application, then you can [...]

Htmlsnapshot can capture image of an existing webbrowser control and save it into jpg, bmp, gif, png etc. You need to pass the object instance of the webbrowser control (IDispatch in C++). In VB6, you can do it like below:      Dim snap1 As HtmlSnap2.CHtmlSnap      Set snap1 = CreateObject(”HTMLSNAP2.HtmlSnap.1″)      snap1.SnapWebBrowser WebBrowser1.Object, “c:\web.bmp”      snap1.Clear We also provide C# demo with [...]

We just released a new version of html to image It fixes an issue when capturing javascript enabled page such as the google map.

To record the “Stereo Mix” or “Wave Mix” on Vista with Audio Record Expert, you will need to enable the device first. Select sound from the control panel. Select the recording tab. Right click on the background of the tab and choose “show disabled devices.” Right click on Wave Out Mix and click enable. Now it should work the same way [...]

Our htmlsnapshot component is designed to convert html or text content into image. If a URL is not text/htm content,  the snapUrl method may fail. To solve this issue, we add a new method called IsGoodUrlForSnap. It will return 1 on the URL which is text/html content.  It can be called like below: snap.IsGoodUrlForSnap(”http://www.google.com“) For more details, please visit the home [...]

I tried it as well. But found it doesn’t work. Virtual PC’s video card simulation is not supported by the default installation. I has to choose the “safe graphics” option to let it go. But when it comes to let me click the “install” icon on the desktop, I found the mouse doesn’t work… So don’t waste [...]

Today I tried to install Ubuntu Linux 7.04 onto VMware server which is free. The installation process is easy and smooth. After that I met  a problem on how to share the data with my windows machine which is using Vista. After doing some search, I found two ways: Using the share folder feature of Ubuntu. It allows [...]

Our ActiveTTS component is a COM component. Using it in .Net needs some attention on how to release it. .Net uses GC to release unused object. But for COM object, it is better to release it as soon as possible when it is not used. The following example code shows how you release ActiveTTS object when it is [...]

Do you ever want to take a screen shot of a web page in your desktop or web application? HTML Snapshot ActiveX is a software component that can make html to image easier than ever before. It can download and parse web sites and save a screenshot of the page in GIF, JPG, JPEG, BMP, [...]

We released a new version of Audio record component. The major update is that we update some underline audio encoders. Feel free to upgrade or try

Some times a URL is protected by autentication scheme such as http authentication or NTLM if you are in a windows domain network. It ususally asks user to input username and password so as to access the protected URLs by poping up a dialog. Our  Htmlsnapshot now supports authentication URLs with a method called SetAuthUserAndPasswd ‘demo how to [...]