Allow user to browse for an online image 1

[AndyGroom]

I've got a dialog box that allows the user to highlight an image and see a thumbnail of it and the dimensions. I need to extend this feature to allow users to enter the URL of an online image and show a thumbnail of it and the dimensions.

If I use a WebBrowser object to navigate to the image's URL, how can I save the resultant image locally so that I can use the existing engines to create a thumbnail and get the dimensions? I somehow need to get a handle to the bitmap shown within the webbrowser object such that I can copy it into a PictureBox or something...

Any ideas?

- Andy
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[HarleyQuinn]

Andy, not 100% sure if this is what you're after but you can get the file using WinHttpRequest:

Dim WinHttpReq as Object
Dim b() As Byte

Set WinHttpReq = CreateObject("WinHttp.WinHttpRequest.5.1")

    
    WinHttpReq.Open "GET", "[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.tek-tips.com/images/star.gif",[/URL] False  ' Send the HTTP Request.
    WinHttpReq.Send

    If WinHttpReq.Status = 200 Then

        Open "c:\star.gif" For Binary As #1
             b() = WinHttpReq.ResponseBody
             Put #1, 1, b()
        Close
    
        Picture1.Picture = LoadPicture("c:\star.gif") ' optional display image
    
    End If
Set WinHttpReq = Nothing

Hope this helps

HarleyQuinn
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[AndyGroom]

That, my friend, is exactly what I'm after.

- Andy
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[strongm]

I posted an Inet variant of that about 8 years ago: thread222-93819 and then 'improved' about 6 years ago in thread222-708828 by eliminating the need to create a file on disk. And then got trumped by a solution that Hypetia found (also given in the latter thread)