| Oracle® Outside In Viewer for ActiveX Release 8.3.5 |
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| Oracle® Outside In Viewer for ActiveX Release 8.3.5 |
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Welcome to Outside In Viewer for ActiveX, the fastest, easiest way to add powerful file access capabilities to your Visual Basic/C++ applications. Whether you're an experienced programmer or just learning, this control will allow you to view, print, cut, copy and paste more than 500 document types with just a few keystrokes.
This powerful control is based on the core viewing technology found in mainstream applications. You will not find another file access system on the market with the variety of formats, up-to-date filters and fidelity as found in Outside In.
The updated list of supported formats is posted at http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/content-management/oit/oit_all.html.
All functionality from the Viewer C API has now been added to the Viewer ActiveX control.
We will no longer be shipping the C header files that we were shipping with previous versions. All of the necessary information in these files has been consolidated into "outsidex.hpp" and will be included in the assembly. Applications that were using the older header files should be modified to use this new header file.
Outside In has added support for Lotus Notes mail, also known as NSF files. This support requires the presence of a Lotus Notes client or a Lotus Domino server and is only supported on Win32. Details can be found in the section NSF Support. There is also a new property associated with this support: SysLotusNotesPath.
An improved rendering engine, DEVECT, has been added that supports vector drawings, presentations, and charts. It replaces the old engine DEMET.
The following other new properties have been added:
FilterOptions determines the behavior of certain graphics and file access filters.
DefaultInputCharSet defines the character set to be used when the technology cannot determine the character set used to encode the text of an input file.
FormatFlags determines data formatting options.
DocumentMemoryMode determines the maximum amount of memory that the internal caching system may use to store the document's data.
SSShowHiddenCells determines whether hidden rows and columns will be shown when displaying a spreadsheet.
The property WPMimeHeaderOutputMode has been deprecated, and replaced with WPEmailHeaderOutputMode, which controls rendering of email headers.
In this release we have added the ability to parse raw XMP (Adobe's Extensible Metadata Platform) data and convert it into document properties. See ParseXMPMetadata.
A new method, GetProperty, retrieves any property information generated by the import filter.
The following new events have been added:
GetCredentials has been added to retrieve file access credentials.
GetTechPath tells Outside In whether a technology path other than the one referenced in the registry's FilterPath entry is to be used.
The ActiveX control may be used for simple applications that need to view a document as well as complex custom applications that require searching, e-mail attachment viewing, or custom publishing techniques. Outside In can also add value to Intranet technologies with its support for documents embedded within HTML and XML files.
You'll quickly discover the ease of integration and the power behind the Outside In technology.
This ActiveX control is based on the industry's leading file-access technology and integrated into mainstream applications from companies such as Microsoft, Lotus, Xerox and DEC. Outside In provides file viewing capabilities which offer software developers the highest fidelity, best performing and most stable support for the broadest number of file types across multiple operating systems.
There are several benefits to using Outside In over other solutions:
Industry-standard filters: The Outside In viewing filters have been tested by hundreds of thousands of users while embedded within the industry's top software programs. This ensures high-quality filters that are submitted to constant quality control procedures.
Up-to-date file formats: One of the most difficult aspects of creating file filters is keeping them up-to-date with evolving formats. Because of relationships with leading vendors, Oracle's filters handle the latest versions of the various document files.
Speed of development: The control is extremely easy to use. Just place the control on a form, set a few properties, and a complete application for viewing documents is accessible.
| Term | Definition |
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| Developer | Someone integrating this technology into another technology or application. Most likely this is you, the reader. |
| Source File | The file the developer wishes to view. |
Each Outside In product has an sdk directory, under which there is a subdirectory for the platform on which the product ships. For the Viewer for ActiveX, the structure is ax/sdk/ax_win-x86-32_sdk). Under this directory are the following four subdirectories:
docs - Contains both a PDF and HTML version of the product manual.
install - Contains files needed to set up the control for demo purposes.
redist - Contains only the files that the customer is allowed to redistribute. These include all the compiled modules, filter support files, cmmap000.bin, and third-party libraries.
sdk - Contains the other subdirectories that used to be at the root-level of an sdk (common, lib (windows only), resource, samplefiles, and samplecode (previously samples). In addition, one new subdirectory has been added, demo, that holds all of the compiled sample apps and other files that are needed to demo the products. These are files that the customer should not redistribute (.cfg files, exportmaps, etc.).
In the root platform directory (for example, ax/sdk/ax_win-x86-32_sdk), there are two files:
README - Explains the contents of the sdk, and that makedemo must be run in order to use the sample applications.
makedemo (either .bat or .sh – platform-based) - This script will copy the contents of …/redist into …/sdk/demo, so that sample applications can be run out of the demo directory.
