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 is suitable for headless server as well)

If you are in GUI mode, Ctrl+Alt+F2 will switch you to text mode.

3. Enter a folder, download html2image

wget http://www.guangmingsoft.net/htmlsnapshot/html2image.i386.tar.gz

4. Extract html2image

tar xvzf html2image.i386.tar.gz
cd html2image
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=./

4. Install 32bit application support libraries.

sudo apt-get install ia32-libs

5. Install Xvfb coming with the Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install xvfb

6. Run Xvfb

Xvfb :1 -screen 0 640×480x24 -nolisten tcp -audit 4 -auth X1.cfg & export DISPLAY=:1
Of course, you could try high resolution like 1024×768x24

7. Now you can run html2image, it should work
./html2image www.google.com a.jpg

Check if the a.jpg is created successfully.

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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 = “1s.jpg”;
$limg = “1b.jpg”;
$iimg = “1i.jpg”;

$com = new COM(”HTMLSNAP2.HtmlSnap.1″);
$com->SetTimeout(150000);
$com->SetDelayTime(5000);
$com->EnableActiveX(true);
$com->EnableJava(true);
$com->EnableScript(true);
$com->EnableActiveX(true);
$com->SetJPEGQuality(100);
$com->SetSmoothingMode(2);
$com->SetInterpolationMode(6);
$com->SnapUrl($url, $path.$img );

$err = $com->GetErrorCode();
if ($err == 1)
{

$com->SetClipRect(0, 0, 1024, 768);
$com->SaveImage($path.$iimg);

$com->GetThumbnailImage($path.$img, $path.$timg, 160, 120, 0);
$com->GetThumbnailImage($path.$img, $path.$limg, 320, 240, 0);
$com->Clear();

print “Snapshot of “.$url.”. Click to enlarge<br>”;
print “<a href=”.$iimg.” mce_href=”.$iimg.”><img src=”.$timg.” mce_src=”.$timg.”><img src=”.$limg.” mce_src=”.$limg.”></a><br/>”;
}
else
{
    print “error happens”;
}
 
?>

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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>

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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
   WScript.Echo “Usage: [CScript | WScript] snapurl.Vbs Url ImageFile”
   WScript.Quit 1
end if

‘demo how to convert html to image
Dim snap

‘Create the Html Snapshot Object
Set snap = CreateObject(”HTMLSNAP2.HtmlSnap.1″)
snap.SetCode “Input your license code here to remove watermark”
snap.SnapUrl args.Item(0), args.Item(1)
WScript.echo “Snap return:” & CStr(snap.GetErrorCode)

‘Free object
Set snap = Nothing

 After that, you can run on command line like below:

cscript.exe snapUrl.vbs www.google.com g.jpg
cscript.exe snapUrl.vbs file://c:\1.html g.jpg

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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.

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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 assert checks and can usually be ignored if you’re not working on that area directly.

To turn off these warnings you can set an environment variable on Windows as follows:

SET XPCOM_DEBUG_BREAK=warn
firefox -Profilemanager

On Linux, something like:

XPCOM_DEBUG_BREAK=warn ./firefox -ProfileManager

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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 articles in your blog.
• Close Old Posts - Closes comments on old posts without any DB queries.
• WP Grins - allows you to put clickable smilies on your post and comments forms.
• WordPress Paged Comments - allows comment paging. Useful for those very popular blog entries receiving many comments.
• Live Comment Preview - the simplest way to get live comment previews on your site.
• Show Top Commentators - Encourage more discussion from your readers, by displaying their names and number of comments they have made recently to your sidebar.
• WordPress Gravatar Plugin - outputs the gravatar based on the commenters email address.
• MyAvatars - shows MyBlogLog’s avatars in your comments
• Comment Relish - Sends a thank you e-mail to your first time commentators.
• Favatars - displays the favicon associated with the commenter’s website.
• Brian’s Threaded Comments - adds a ‘Reply to this comment’ link to every comment. Makes it easy for people to reply to comments and discuss better.
• Dofollow - lets you remove the nofollow attribute from your comments.
• OpenID Comments for Wordpress - allows users to leave comments using their OpenID.
• Extended Comment Options - allows you to switch comments and/or pings on or off for batches of existing posts.

Stop WordPress Spam

• Akismet - intelligently blocks spam comments. Checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they are spam or not.
• Spam Karma 2 (SK2) - is an anti-spam plugin for the WordPress meant to stop all forms of automated Blog spam effortlessly, while remaining as unobtrusive as possible to regular commenters.
• Bad Behavior - is a set of PHP scripts which prevents spambots from accessing your site by analyzing their actual HTTP requests and comparing them to profiles from known spambots.
• Math comment spam protection - Adds a math question to comments form to detect human input and block automated spambots.
• WP-Contact Form with Spam Protection - creates a contact form on your blog, through which your readers can contact you easily.

Expert WordPress SEO

• Google XML Sitemaps Generator - creates a sitemap of all articles on your WordPress blog. Helps Google and other search engines index every article you write.
• Permalink Redirect - replies a 301 permanent redirect, if requested URI is different from entry’s (or archive’s) permalink. It is used to ensure that there is only one URL associated with each blog entry.
• All in One SEO Pack - Optimizes your Wordpress blog for Search Engines (Search Engine Optimization).
• Head META Description - Insert HTML META description tags using post excerpts.
• SEO Title Tag - Optimize your wordpress title tags for search engines. Mass edit the title tags of posts, pages, category pages, tag pages etc.
• Enforce www. Preference - will help preserve your permalinks by enforcing your no-www or yes-www preference and will strip off index.php from the ends of URIs.
• Optimal Title - allows you to have your blog name tacked on to the end of the page title instead of having it appear first.
• Quick META Keywords - will automatically add META Keywords tags to every single post based on categories under which the article is categorized.

Easy WordPress Navigation

• Related Posts - Returns a list of the related entries based on active/passive keyword matches. Increase pageviews by providing targeted related content.
• WP-PageNavi - Adds a more advanced page navigation to Wordpress, which is very useful for navigation on index and category pages.
• Evermore - Abbreviate all posts when viewed on multiple post pages. Helpful to create expandable posts summaries in Wordpress. Combine with Less that changes the (more…) link so it displays the entire post, not just the part after the “more”.
• Random Redirect - Allows you to create a link to a random post on your blog. Lets readers browse in a StumbleUpon-like fashion.
• Lightbox JS Plugin - used to overlay images on the current page into neat Javascript-powered overlay popups.
• WordPress Mobile Edition - shows an interface designed for a mobile device when visitors come to your site on a mobile device.
• Popularity Contest - keeps a count of your post, category and archive views, comments, trackbacks, etc. and uses them to determine which of your posts are most popular.
• Extended Live Archive - implements a dynamic, AJAXified way of digging into the archives of a blog.
• Landing Sites - When visitors is referred to your site from a search engine, it shows them related posts to their search on your blog.
• Clean Archives - designed to display your archive listings in a clean and uniform fashion. It lists the Month / Year, the day of the month the article was published, the title of the article, and the number of comments that have been made on each article.
• Custom Query String - set the number of posts (custom queries) for every single page on your website like categories, archives, or search results pages.
• Feed List - very useful for adding other RSS feeds to your site.
• Sidebar Widgets because it allows you to move things (widgets) around, in and out of your sidebar. Not required for WordPress 2.2 and above.
• KB Advanced RSS Widget - a wordpress widget that gives you complete control over how RSS feeds are parsed for your sidebar.
• Category Cloud Widget - Adds a sidebar widget to display the categories as a tag cloud.
• Adhesive - lets you make the posts “sticky”, such that the posts will remain at the top of the page.
• Permalinks Migration Plugin - safely change your permalink structure without breaking the old links to your website or affecting your search engine rankings.

Interactive WordPress Posts

• Share This - lets your visitors to add your post to various social bookmarking sites, or send a link via e-mail to a friend.
• Digg this - detects incoming links from Digg.com to your wordpress post and automatically display a link back to the digg post, for people to digg your story.
• Delicious Cached++ - uses the built-in MagpieRSS engine functions to create a list of the latest bookmarks on a del.icio.us account, from its RSS feed, keeping the feed cached in the database.
• WP-Notable - displays a series of icons below each post allowing your readers to easily submit you to many different social bookmarking and networking sites.
• WP-Email - Allows people to recommend/send your WordPress blog’s post/page to a friend.
• WP-PostRatings - Adds an AJAX rating system for your WordPress blog’s post/page.
• EasyTube - allows you to easily embed YouTube and Google Videos using one simple tag.
• Twitter Updater - automatically sends a Twitter status update to your Twitter account when you create, publish, or edit your WordPress post. More best Twitter plugins.

WordPress Admin Management Tools

• WordPress Database Backup - On-demand backup of your WordPress database. Back up your blog today.
• WP-cache - Very fast cache module. Survive a Digg traffic spike easily.
• WP-Supercache - A modification of WP-Cache that produces static html files.
• Batch Categories - Easily manage the mass categorization of posts that match various criteria. Power edit your categories.
• podPress - adds lots of features designed to make WordPress the ideal platform for hosting a podcast.
• TinyMCE Advanced - adds 16 plugins to TinyMCE, the WordPress wysiwyg editor. Adds over 40 new buttons to the toolbar, which is now two rows plus one hidden row.
• Exec-PHP - allows php tags inside the content or excerpt of your posts and pages to be executed just as in usual PHP files.
• Wordpress Reporter - allows you to easily view your Google Analytics and Feedburner reports in your WordPress administration area.
• WordPress.com Stats - Tracks views, post/page views, referrers, and clicks. Requires a WordPress.com API key.
• WP Tiger Administration - Uses power of CSS2 to manipulate the functionality of the WordPress administration area
• Admin Drop Down Menu - eliminates the need for this double clicking on the Admin screens by allowing you to see the second level menu just by placing your mouse over a main menu.
• InstantUpgrade - provides is a easy and safe way to upgrade your WordPress automatically with a single click.
• Maintenance Mode Plugin - Adds a splash page to your blog that lets visitors know your blog is down for maintenance. Logged in administrators get full access to the blog including the front-end.
• Theme Test Drive - allows you to safely test drive any theme on your blog as an administrator, while visitors continue to see the default one.

Advertising on WordPress

• Ad Rotator - Rotates Ads randomly from a specified text file.
• AdSense-Deluxe - is a WordPress plugin offering advanced options for managing the automatic insertion of Google AdSense or Yahoo Publisher Network (YPN) ads to your WordPress posts. More Google Adsense WP plugins.
• Buy Me a Beer - allows your readers to donate money to you via PayPal on pretext of buying a beer.
• Wordpress BankRoll - offers to help you cut out the middleman by allowing advertisers to buy reviews directly on your blog.

Wordpress Blog Translation

• Global Translator - Translate your blog into multiple languages in a search engine friendly way.
• Angsuman’s Translator Plugin Pro - provides automatic machine translation of your blog in 13+1 languages. Costs $30.

Enhance Wordpress RSS Feeds

• Feedburner Feedsmith - Forwards all feed traffic to Feedburner while creating a randomized feed for Feedburner to pull from.
• Simple Feed Copyright - adds a simple copyright notice to full text wordpress feeds.
• Full Text Feed - Prevents WordPress 2.1+ from adding a more link to your website’s feed. Ensures you get full text feeds.
• Add Related Posts to Your Feed - adds a list of Related Posts to your full text feed. Requires either UTW or Related Posts plugin installed and activated.
• RSS Signature - allow the addition of a custom tagline, signature or copyright message to the wordpress generated rss feeds.

Random WordPress Stuff

• Democracy - adds AJAX polling functionality to your WordPress blog.
• flickrRSS - allows you to easily display Flickr photos on your weblog

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‘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 TIFF
snap.SetTIFFEncoder 1
snap.SaveMultipageTiff “m-google-ccitt-3.tiff”, 200

‘Set CCITT4 encoding for TIFF
snap.SetTIFFEncoder 2
snap.SaveMultipageTiff “m-google-ccitt-4.tiff”, 200

‘Set RLE encoding for TIFF
snap.SetTIFFEncoder 3
snap.SaveMultipageTiff “m-google-rle.tiff”, 200

‘Set none encoding for TIFF
snap.SetTIFFEncoder 4
snap.SaveMultipageTiff “m-google-none.tiff”, 200

snap.SetTIFFEncoder 1

‘Change thresholding when converting to monochrome
snap.SetThreshold 200
snap.SaveMultipageTiff “m-google-ccitt-4-1.tiff”, 200

Set snap = Nothing

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<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 CSS specified.

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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 is a workaround that seems work for me.

su
gedit /etc/grub.conf

Remove the “rhgb” in the file. Then reboot again, the mouse pointer seems to come back now.

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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 people want to uninstall it.  That’s OK, Microsoft allows that, and that’s what this will show you how to do.
Before we start, understand the way the uninstaller works.  You can uninstall the entire Configuration, or just for users, or just for Administrators.  The un-installer is set up like this:

Enhanced Security
->For Administrators
->For Users

If you have just random users connecting via Remote Desktop or Terminal Services, you may want to leave the Users configuration installed.  This tutorial will be removing all of it.

Method:

Click Start, put your mouse over Control Panel, and click Add/Remove Programs

Now click Add/Remove Windows Components

After a few seconds a window will pop-up.  Click the check mark next to Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration (to make it unchecked).  If you’d like to only disable it for Administrators or only for Users you can click Details and do so.

Press Next, let it finish, and it’s complete!

Questions:

Q: How do I know if it is enabled?

A: When you open Internet Explorer up you will see this dialog

Q: How do I know if it’s disabled?

A: When you load up Internet Explorer Internet Explorer will tell you:

Caution: Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration is not enabled

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I did a search today and found many people met this issue.  A recommended fix is below:

 To make this change, navigate regedit to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\System\\CurrentControlSet\\Control\\Session Manager\\SubSystems. The “Windows” value contains a big honkin’ string, and one part of it is “SharedSection=xxxx,yyyy,zzzz”. The second number (yyyy) is the one that you want to increase. Standard registry editing disclaimers apply, YMMV.

It seems to work after I made the change. 

More details, please see

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/184802
http://weblogs.asp.net/kdente/archive/2004/06/04/148145.aspx

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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 code is like  this:

 $content[’title’] = ”A post”
 $content[’description’] = $article;
 $content[’categories’] = “General”;
  $c = new xmlrpc_client(”/xmlrpc.php”, “localhost”, 80);
   $x = new xmlrpcmsg(”metaWeblog.newPost”,
       array(php_xmlrpc_encode(”1″),
       php_xmlrpc_encode($blogUser),
       php_xmlrpc_encode($blogPass),
       php_xmlrpc_encode($content),
       php_xmlrpc_encode(”1″)));
   $c->return_type = ‘phpvals’;
   $r =$c->send($x);
   if ($r->errno==”0″)
   {
    echo “Successfully Posted! articel ID:”;
    print $r->val;
   }
   else
   {
     echo “xmlrpc meets some error”;
     print_r($r);
   }

But when I tried to implement uploading images with metaWeblog.newMediaObject method, the library cannot support base64 value encoding correctly.

Then I realized the library used by wordpress itself should be a good candidate. It is actually from here: http://scripts.incutio.com/xmlrpc/beginners.php

$client = new IXR_Client(’http://scripts.incutio.com/xmlrpc/simpleserver.php’);
if (!$client->query(’test.getTime’)) {
   die(’An error occurred - ‘.$client->getErrorCode().”:”.$client->getErrorMessage());
}
print $client->getResponse();

This library is more easily to use. Highly recommended!

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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 mode will be removed.

‘Here is a quick example in VB Script:
Dim rec
‘Create the Audio Record Object

Set rec = CreateObject(”AudioCtl.AudioRecord.1″)
‘Set your code here

rec.SetCode “Your license code here”
‘Then do what ever you like …

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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 when adding the features. IIS7 seems to be componentized. so if you don’t check the ISAPI feature, php cannot run as ISAPI under IIS7

 3.  Extract php zip file to d:\php.  copy the file php.ini-dist to windows folder (d:\windows\) and rename it to php.ini (erase the -dist part).
Now open the php.ini in notepad.

a. Inside the file, look for the line ;extension=php_mysql.dll and delete the semi-color (;) from the beginning of the line
b. Modify extension_dir to be d:\php\ext
c.  Set session.save_path = “D:\php\phpsessions”. Make sure you make a directory  “D:\php\phpsessions” and it can be written by IIS USER account.
d. Copy ext\php_mysql.dll to d:\windows\system32

 3. Run IIS manager, Click “handler mapping”, Add script map

In the window that pops up, fill up the fields with these values:

“Request path:” *.php

“Executable:” d:\php\php5isapi.dll

“Name:” PHP

Note, every time you modify php.ini, you need to restart the “World Web Publishing Service” to make it take effect.

4. Install Mysql with the office setup. (You may need to open the Mysql TCP port in the windows firewall)

5.  Last, try phpinfo.php in your  IIS folder

<?php

phpinfo();

?>

You should be able to see mysql box in the output html

6. Install PhpMyAdmin, use a simple config.inc.php. It will work

<?php
$cfg[’blowfish_secret’] = ‘ba17c1ec07d65003′;  // use here a value of your choice

$i=0;
$i++;
$cfg[’Servers’][$i][’auth_type’]     = ‘cookie’;
?>

Referrence:

http://blondr.blogspot.com/2006/11/set-up-iis-7-w-mysql-and-php-5.html

http://forums.iis.net/p/1116593/1735066.aspx#1735066

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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 the executable file (exe) of your application.

However, in some situations, for example when you import an ActiveX control into your project, you’ll need to make sure that this ActiveX control is registered on your users machines. If the control is not registered there, an EOleSysError exception will be displayed to your user eyes.

RegSvr32.exe
The regsvr32.exe command-line tool registers dll and ActiveX controls on a system. You can manually use the Regsvr32.exe (Windows.Start - Run) to register and unregister OLE controls such as dynamic link library (DLL) or ActiveX Controls (OCX) files that are self-registerable.
When you use Regsvr32.exe, it attempts to load the component and call its DLLSelfRegister function. If this attempt is successful, Regsvr32.exe displays a dialog indicating success.

RegSvr32.exe has the following command-line options:

Regsvr32 [/u] [/s] [/n] [/i[:cmdline]] dllname
 /s - Silent; display no message boxes
 /u - Unregister server
 /i - Call DllInstall passing it an optional [cmdline];
      when used with /u calls dll uninstall
 /n - do not call DllRegisterServer; this option must
      be used with /i

From Delphi code
To call the regsvr32 tool from within Delphi code, you’ll need a function that can execute a file and wait for the execution to finish.
This is how the ‘RegisterOCX’ procedure could look:

procedure RegisterOCX;
type
  TRegFunc = function : HResult; stdcall;
var
  ARegFunc : TRegFunc;
  aHandle  : THandle;
  ocxPath  : string;
begin
 try
  ocxPath := ExtractFilePath(Application.ExeName) + ‘Flash.ocx’;
  aHandle := LoadLibrary(PChar(ocxPath));
  if aHandle <> 0 then
  begin
    ARegFunc := GetProcAddress(aHandle,’DllRegisterServer’);
    if Assigned(ARegFunc) then
    begin
      ExecAndWait(’regsvr32′,’/s ‘ + ocxPath);
    end;
    FreeLibrary(aHandle);
  end;
 except
  ShowMessage(Format(’Unable to register %s’, [ocxPath]));
 end;
end;
 
Note: the ocxPath variable points to the ‘Flash.ocx’ Macromedia ActiveX control.

To be able to register itself, an ActiveX control needs to implement the DllRegisterServer function. In simple words, this function creates registry entries for all the classes inside the control. We do not need to worry about the DllRegisterServer function we just want to make sure it is there. For the sake of simplicity, we’ve presumed that the ActiveX control (the *.ocx file) is located in the same folder as where your application is.

The red line in the above code, does the job of calling the regsvr32 tool by passing the “/s” switch along with the full path to the ActiveX control. The function is ExecAndWait.

uses shellapi;
…
function ExecAndWait(const ExecuteFile, ParamString : string): boolean;
var
  SEInfo: TShellExecuteInfo;
  ExitCode: DWORD;
begin
  FillChar(SEInfo, SizeOf(SEInfo), 0);
  SEInfo.cbSize := SizeOf(TShellExecuteInfo);
  with SEInfo do begin
    fMask := SEE_MASK_NOCLOSEPROCESS;
    Wnd := Application.Handle;
    lpFile := PChar(ExecuteFile);
    lpParameters := PChar(ParamString);
    nShow := SW_HIDE;
  end;
  if ShellExecuteEx(@SEInfo) then
  begin
    repeat
      Application.ProcessMessages;
      GetExitCodeProcess(SEInfo.hProcess, ExitCode);
    until (ExitCode <> STILL_ACTIVE) or Application.Terminated;
    Result:=True;
  end
  else Result:=False;
end;
 
The above, ExecAndWait, function uses ShellExecuteEx API call to execute a file on a system. If you need more examples of executing any file from Delphi, check the Start from Delphi article.

Flash.ocx inside Delphi exe
All set, but if you think twice, you’ll ask yourself “How did that Flash.ocx got there?”. You are right! If there is a need to register an ActiveX control on your user machine than you need to make sure the user has the ocx you (your program) need. One way to go is to place the entire ActiveX (or DLL) inside your applications exe as a resource. When the ocx is stored inside your exe it is easy to extract it, save to disk and call the RegisterOCX procedure. I’ve already written several articles on using resources from Delphi exe, here are some you might find useful here:

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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 use this function:

function Sto_GetModuleName: String;
var
  szFileName: array[0..MAX_PATH] of Char;
begin
  GetModuleFileName(hInstance, szFileName, MAX_PATH);
  Result := szFileName;
end;

The above is from

http://www.martinstoeckli.ch/delphi/delphi.html#AppRedirectOutput

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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 our trial version.

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It fixes an issue when capturing javascript enabled page such as the google map.

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1. Select sound from the control panel.
2. Select the recording tab.
3. Right click on the background of the tab and choose “show disabled devices.”
4. Right click on Wave Out Mix and click enable.
5. Now it should work the same way as Wave Out Mix in Windows XP, allowing you to record any sound your computer makes.

Read more on

http://www.downloadsquad.com/2007/01/15/how-to-enable-wave-out-recording-in-vista/

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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 page of htmlsnapshot

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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 time to try that. Use the free VMware server instead which I think it is much better than the free Virtual PC 2007

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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 to share a folder with SMB.  After adding a folder as share, it is still not visible to Vista. (Pop up a dialog for password).

         It is necessary to add the user to SMB password list.

     Sudo smbpasswd -a username

• Another way is to let Ubuntu to access an Vista share.  I tried several ways to make it work:

  tried

  Run secpol.msc

  Go to: Local Policies > Security Options

  Find “Network Security: LAN Manager authentication level”

  Change Setting from “Send NTLMv2 response only”

  to”Send LM & NTLM - use NTLMv2 session security if negotiated”

  Vista defaults to only send the more secure NTLMv2 protocol, which these NAS devices / Samba do not support.”

                          Finally tried a manual mount

                           sudo mount -t cifs -o username=user,password=pass  //VistaIP/share   /mnt/vista

                  It finally works.

By the way, Ubuntu has an easy way to update software on it.   The command below can automatically download and install new software onto the system.

               sudo apt-get install softwarename

Have fun with it.

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.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 done.

       Dim i
        For i = 0 To 1000
            Try
                Dim objActiveTTS As New TTSObj.CTextToSpeechClass
                Dim strCode As String
                objActiveTTS.SetCode(strCode)
                objActiveTTS.SpeakToFile(”Hello world”, “d:\temp\xxxx.mp3″, TTSObj.TTSFLAG.TF_DEFAULT)
                Marshal.ReleaseComObject(objActiveTTS)
            Catch ex As Exception
            End Try
        Next

Marshal.ReleaseComObject is the key method.

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The key benifits of using Html Snapshot are:

Html Snapshot has been used by thousands of enterprise customers since its first release in 2004. And it is being constantly improved by the company Guangming Software. Lot of new features and fixes are adding to the product.

Here below lists the high light features of the component.

Html Snapshot is free to try. Just try it out for FREE in your applications to convert html to image before purchase.

Related web links:

Guangming Software: http://www.guangmingsoft.net
Html Snapshot:  http://www.guangmingsoft.net/htmlsnapshot/help.htm
Html Snapshot Download: http://www.guangmingsoft.net/htmlsnapshot/HtmlSnapSetup.exe

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The major update is that we update some underline audio encoders. Feel free to upgrade or try

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Our  Htmlsnapshot now supports authentication URLs with a method called SetAuthUserAndPasswd

‘demo how to capture a page with http authentication
Dim snap

‘Create the Html Snapshot Object
Set snap = CreateObject(”HTMLSNAP2.HtmlSnap.1″)

‘Set the time to wait for web page loading
snap.SetTimeOut CLng(200000)

‘Begin to capture the web page
‘Note, change following to your url, user and password for test
snap.SetAuthUserAndPasswd “username”, “password”

snap.SnapUrl “http://www.example.com“, “auth.jpg”

‘Free object
Set snap = Nothing

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htmlsnapshot is a component that aims to be used by developers.  It allows  maxinum flexiblity by providing a set of methods

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