Adding Image to Dialog from Internet

[kpassaur]

I was wondering if it is possible to have the backgound image for a Dialog Box pulled from an ftp site or http site without downloading and saving it to the local PC.


Don't you all laugh, but I had a brainstorm. Image distributing a utility for free that is useful and it randomly pulls advertisements from a remote server. It would be the same way banner Ads work only you get a useful utility written with Macro Scheduler.

Any pointers? Is it possible?

[Marcus Tettmar]

It is impossible to get something from the web without downloading it first! Even web browsers download images to a temporary location on the drive before displaying them.

But you can make the entire process transparent, yes. Use HTTPRequest to get the image to a temporary file and then set the image object on the dialog to that file. On terminate delete the temporary file(s). Pretty simple.

[kpassaur]

Thanks, I can handle doing it now - just needed some direction as always.