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Dan, out of curiousity, why do you believe jpeg's are not the right format?

The JPEG format does an outstanding job for pictures, however it performs very poorly for logos and anything with sharp edges such as text and/or screenshots.  Try to take a screenshot and save it to a .jpg, .gif or .png.  You will see the .png format produces the best result in both quality and smaller file size.  The .gif format may produce an identical result if your screenshot contains less than 256 colors.

Edited: Saturday, October 29, 2005 by GenoProSupport

1. First, I added 2 new images to the image folder: male.jpg and female.jpg,   like the samples which was sent to this topic a few days ago by Howard53

2. then,  I added this code in the individual.htm file after the line:

and it worked

Edited: Monday, November 14, 2005 by beraha

1. You should use i.gender.id instead of i.gender.  The field i.gender may be translated to any language.
2. Instead of repeating the code, you should write <img src='images/NoPicture_@[i.gender.id]@.jpg' ... />.  This will substitute the "NoPicture_M.jpg" or "NoPicture_F.jpg".
3. Remove the onclick='viewPic(this.src)' since you do not want people to click on the default picture.

There are many issues having a default picture.

1. Should the default picture be displayed everywhere, including the parents and children?  For instance, should a family of 5 children display the default picture 5 times if there are no picture at all.
2. What about the size of this picture.  Some pictures are displayed at 100x100 while others are displayed at 248x248.  Shrinking the default picture will not look good.
3. What about the aspect ratio of the picture.  From your code, you hardcoded the dimension of 135x148.  What if the user changes the picture to another size?

I have been thinking of a solution with a parameter like _DefaultPicture="NoPicture.jpg".  GenoPro would automatically load the file NoPicture.jpg during the initialization of the report and would supply this picture automatically to any collection of pictures.  In other words, the i.Pictures.Count would never return 0, so there would be no code to modify.  Having the picture loaded, it would possible to know the picture dimension while generating the report, thus solving the problem of the aspect ratio.  Additionally, there could be other parameters such as _DefaultPicture_M="NoPicture_M.jpg" and _DefaultPicture_F="NoPicture_F.jpg" to specify the default picture for each gender.  GenoPro would supply the proper picture depending on the gender.  There is the issue of hyperlinking to the default picture, but I think this can be solved too.

Edited: Sunday, November 13, 2005 by GenoProSupport

In my opinion, the best way is to put a default picture only on the primary pictures of the individual. And just maybe - also in the wife's/husband's pictures. There is no need to put default pictures on the children section.

Since it is possible to achieve this task from the "skin" itself, without changing any code inside genopro - maybe it is the best way to leave it that way. So - anyone can decide what they want to do in that matter.

There is no problem of the aspect ratio, because you use the same default photo all the time, and you can fix its size as a permanent size.

just don't cancel the option to get a result such as: if (i.pictures.count = 0 ) then, because it is the most important condition in that code.

 Whatever you decide to be the best approach in that matter, I'm sure your solution will be the best.

Edited: Monday, November 14, 2005 by GenoProSupport

It is true the picture count would always be greater than zero, however it would be possible to determine if this is the default picture by having an empty collection of Dependents.

Maybe Ron could have a go at this as he has shown a great talent for reworking the skins!?

iaintait (11/14/2005)

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This is great news, but could I do this in the skin, and if so, where do I put the code?

Maybe Ron could have a go at this as he has shown a great talent for reworking the skins!?

Have you seen the code I have published?

I have changed only the Individual.htm, and it was very easy.

Here is a sample from my website:

I would now, however do the same thing with the family page if possible as the individual page is super.