Hi Mario
I have now searched about one hour without success.
I know, you have once wrote in a side-note (but with an example), that we can load in a variables a file instead only simply display a text.
This means, for example in this variables (from the helpfile):
{File.Name|strcomp:Beach,less,equal,greater}
(Compares the variable value to 'Beach' and returns 'less, 'equal' or 'greater', depending on the outcome.)
we could let display a file (an png-icon for example) instead of let display the words "less", "equal" or "greater".
I know for sure, that you wrote this in the forum here, but cannot find it, whatever I search for. :-[ :-\
Can you remember maybe the correct variable-code for this?
That's tricky. Because most variables escape unsafe text (e.g. < and >) to prevent invalid markup. But the following statement uses pereplace to overcome this (see the help for details).
{File.Ext|contains:NEF,y,n,false;pereplace:y==<Image Source='file://c:\images\banana.png'/>}
If the file extension contains NEF, the first function returns y else n.
The prereplace then replaces y with an <Image> XAML tag that loads a PNG file from the local disk.
This prevents the variable parser from escaping < and > and thus we produce real markup.
The result: A bunch of bananas is displayed in the footer of each NEF file:
(https://www.photools.com/community/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=4621.0;attach=10144;image)
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Phew, simply fantastic!!!!
Such a quick answer and such a good answer and such a funny answer (the bananas looks funny ;D).
Thanks a lot, Mario, I will do so, very cool!
And yes: it works!
Only to report this:
The variable in Mario's example above works perfectly in the Windows Layout.
In my html-template for an App the line works with this:
<p>{File.Ext|contains:NEF,y,n,false;pereplace:y==<Image src="file://c:\sinus-icons\loc2.png"/>}</p>
See my attachement, the star is the png.
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