I lied. I’ll be the first to admit it. In my post
I said I was done with the Modern Web Browser control. Apparently not!
So I was doing some house cleaning and came across a project I had developed several years back, but wouldn’t work because the old web browser control didn’t support HTML canvas elements and I had shelved it.
Well, we have the Modern Web Browser now, so I thought this should be an easy thing to complete. Let’s just say that wasn’t the case.
In all fairness, I did get the original demo up and running within 30 minutes, but I wanted to enable the user to be able to swap images easily and to do that wanted to dynamically populate the Modern Web Browser control on the fly based off of user file selection. To make that actually work was quite the learning process and took me the better part of a day to actually get functional and cleaned up.
The end result though, is a flexible tool that can easily be integrated into any database to enable image cropping. No APIs, No OCXs, … no bitness issues, nothing to register, … to worry about. Great for fixing employee webcam pictures, just saying. No need for external image editors anymore.
To make this all happen, I came across a JS library, cropper.js that empowers basic webpages with the ability to crop images. So it was just a question of integrating that within Access, developing so means to save what is done on the webpage… How hard could it be, right!
Demo Database
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liar liar pants on fire😁…. Seen a reference in the Access VBA window I’ve never seen before “MMC Internal Web Browser event sink 1.0 type library”. You ever came across it before?
No, can’t say that I have.
From what I could quick find, not much out there, it seems like a Web Browser automation library. Probably what makes the control work.
Where exactly did you come across it?