Archive for February, 2006

Speak Aloud new version

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006

We just updated the Speak Aloud application. Please try.
Update:

Record Skype calls

Saturday, February 25th, 2006

Have you ever wanted to record skype conversations?
When you are doing skype, there are two sound streams. One is the microphone input, which is your own voice. The other is the remote voice from the one you are chatting with. The two sound streams needs to be mixed and recorded in real time.
Audio Record Expert […]

Does your spam filter work well?

Friday, February 24th, 2006

Recently I sent an email to a customer who is using yahoo’s email service. But it seems he didn’t get it. Then I sent it again. He still didn’t get it.
So I have to doubt if his spam filter blocks my email. But I have no way to contact him except email. So I have […]

Delay between StopRecord and StartRecord

Thursday, February 23rd, 2006

A customer wants to do a quick start recording after stop recording when using our Active Audio Record object. He is concerning about the delay between the two calls.
I would say the delay is pretty small. The time is spent by the two calls, which is dependent on the sound card reaction speed for stopping […]

MSI installer on demand

Monday, February 20th, 2006

The shortcut created by MSI installer may be a GUID, not directly points to an executable.
You can have a look at the word or excel shortcut if they are on your desktop.
The magic behavior of MSI is that if it finds some dependency is missing. It will run the setup application again. That is so […]

Email support

Saturday, February 18th, 2006

Email is the mainly support method of Guangming Software. Sometimes we use MSN messenger to help customers to resolve issues promptly.  
We normally process support email in 24 hours. Due to possible time zone difference, it may take a bit longer than expected. So please be patient.

A trick on converting html with flash to image

Friday, February 17th, 2006

Normally when a html page is fully loaded, there will be an event generated by web browser.   
Pages with flash movie can be different. Since flash movie has a feature that loads itself from servers. With this feature, it is hard to tell when the flash movie has been fully loaded. The web browser first downloads a […]

How to register Active TTS with your code

Thursday, February 16th, 2006

After purchase, there will be a code sent to you via email. Normally the order email will be sent in several hours. If you don’t receive it, please check your spam folder (sometimes, it may happen). If it is not there, please send email to us. We will help check the status.

Use Active Audio Play Object in C#

Wednesday, February 15th, 2006

Our Audio Record component has  simple playback functions for mp3, wma, ogg or wave files.
You can use play object in C# easily like the record object since it is a standard COM object like the record one.

Happy Valentines day

Tuesday, February 14th, 2006

Do you have a nice day?

Html Snapshot Sample in Windev

Monday, February 13th, 2006

WINDEV, a powerful IDE, lets you build strategic projects easily and quickly thanks to its total integration, ease-of-use and cutting-edge technology.
Support .Net, Java code and more!
I don’t use Windev before. This Windev example is kindly provided by one of our customers.

Html To Image New Version Released

Sunday, February 12th, 2006

We released a new version of html to image 2.0.2006.208.
This version fixes some small problems.

Track bugs by reproduction

Saturday, February 11th, 2006

Software always has “bugs”. This is because the software running environment varies a lot. You may use a computer which installs incompatible programs, or you may lose some dependency DLLs that the program requires, or the software developer like us didn’t consider carefully on certain scenarios. Don’t worry about bugs too much. We will find way […]

Html To Image: GetImageBytes method

Friday, February 10th, 2006

Some times you may not want to write the image converted from html page to an image file. You may want to write the image data to another place like a network stream or a database, etc.
GetImageBytes is designed for this kind of scenerio. It is used to do in memory compression of the bitmap […]

Word press update

Thursday, February 9th, 2006

Wordpress developers released a new version. I will update my blog soon.
Quick update is very important. Even large corp. like Microsoft has to use constant update to secure its users. In today’s internet world, security bugs are the most critical ones.
I had a PHP board here before to support the customers. But it is hacked by […]

Want PDF to image?

Wednesday, February 8th, 2006

Do you need a PDF to image control?
While there are already many PDF to image products on the net, there is a simple way by using GhostScript.
Ghostscript supports PS and PDF formats. It can render them to different devices suh as TIFF, PNG or printer. The DPI of rendering can be changed.

Got back from vacation

Tuesday, February 7th, 2006

Now regular word and life begin again.
Althrough I have managed to post three short notes from mobile devices for the last three days, the net speed is really slow on the devices. Now I am enjoying fast surfing experience again. Great!

Redistribute html to image

Monday, February 6th, 2006

After integrating html snapshot with your application, the next thing may be redistributing it so that every user of the app. can convert html to image by installing your app.
For registered users, it’s totally free to redistribute the htmlsnap2.dll.
Since htmlsnap2.dll is an ActiveX server, it must be registered like any other ActiveX component on […]

Another html to image note

Sunday, February 5th, 2006

When doing html to image conversion with html snapshot, the image will be rendered with current display context.
So to achieve the best image quality, the display mode needs to be in true color mode, either 24 or 32 bits. Almost every video card can support the above mode nowadays.
The other thing related is […]

One html to image note

Saturday, February 4th, 2006

Currently html snapshot converts the whole html document into an image.
Html document may be very large so the resulted image will be large as well. If the video card ram memory on the machine is low, the bitmap image may not be able to be held for rendering. So it will lead to a snap […]

Multithreaded Html to Image

Friday, February 3rd, 2006

Html snapshot ActiveX is a thread safe COM component. It uses single apartment COM threading model. So if you want to use multiple instances of html snapshot in several threads, you can create work threads and in each work thread create the html snapshot object, then you can convert html to image in the threads.
 

html to fax with html snapshot

Thursday, February 2nd, 2006

Some people may want to fax a html document in their application. First it is necessary to convert the html document into image that the fax driver can understand. Fax machines typically support TIFF format which supports multiple encoding scheme. Html Snapshot has full support for TIFF encoding. It supports LZW, CCITT3, CCITT4 and RLE (Pack […]

Text to speech in IIS

Wednesday, February 1st, 2006

Some customers want to convert text to audio in web sites with Active TTS. They may use ASP, ASP.Net as program languages and use IIS as the web server.
If they query the voice installed on the system in such script languages, they will find there are only SAPI4 voices listed. The reason behind it is […]