save image with double click instead of right click

[JustDucky923]

I am creating a website for a client who has European visitors to their site.
They need to have a page that contains high resolutions images for their
European visitors to download. They tell me that these European visitors
cannot or will not use the "right-click, save picture as.." function. What
they want is the ability to simple "double-click" on an image and have the
"save as" dialog box pop up.

I am desperate for an answer to this.

 

[Mike Mueller]

"JustDucky923" <[email protected]>
wrote in message
:I am creating a website for a client who has European
visitors to their site.
: They need to have a page that contains high resolutions
images for their
: European visitors to download. They tell me that these
European visitors
: cannot or will not use the "right-click, save picture
as.." function. What
: they want is the ability to simple "double-click" on an
image and have the
: "save as" dialog box pop up.
:
: I am desperate for an answer to this.

Sorry, the internet does not work that way. If the image is
something that a browser can open, it will. Best thing to do
is to compress (zip) the image, and provide a hyperlink to
it. You could use a thumbnail of the actual image for the
anchor text

Example
<a href="image.zip>
<img src="image_thumb.jpg>
</a>

 

[JustDucky923]

I was afraid of that. I think that trying to teach these people how to
extract a zip file could be a nightmare in itself.

Is there any way to create a "save" button to put next to the image?

 

[Tom Willett]

No. They must right click.
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|I was afraid of that. I think that trying to teach these people how to
| extract a zip file could be a nightmare in itself.
|
| Is there any way to create a "save" button to put next to the image?
|
| "Mike Mueller" wrote:
|
| > "JustDucky923" <[email protected]>
| > wrote in message
| > | > :I am creating a website for a client who has European
| > visitors to their site.
| > : They need to have a page that contains high resolutions
| > images for their
| > : European visitors to download. They tell me that these
| > European visitors
| > : cannot or will not use the "right-click, save picture
| > as.." function. What
| > : they want is the ability to simple "double-click" on an
| > image and have the
| > : "save as" dialog box pop up.
| > :
| > : I am desperate for an answer to this.
| >
| > Sorry, the internet does not work that way. If the image is
| > something that a browser can open, it will. Best thing to do
| > is to compress (zip) the image, and provide a hyperlink to
| > it. You could use a thumbnail of the actual image for the
| > anchor text
| >
| > Example
| > <a href="image.zip>
| > <img src="image_thumb.jpg>
| > </a>
| >
| >
| >

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

With custom server-side scripting such as ASP, you can force a image to download, instead of
displaying in the browser.

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[Joseph R. Pottschmidt]

Dear JustDucky923:

Since I've built an Image database myself, I've had to struggle with
that problem as well. The way that I got around it was very simple and
it does work, is if they don't have something that opens TIF files, then
it will prompt them to download an image. If it is an image that is
either a JPG, GIF, or any other format that is support by whatever
browser they are using, or any application that they are using, it will
automatically open on there system in whatever application. Since you
don't have control over what there windows setup it, you just have to
explain to them if they click or double-click on the image, it will open
in whatever default application is associated with that particular
associated extension, either be it TIFF, JPEG, or whatever else.

I hope that helps.

Joe P.


-----Original Message-----
From: JustDucky923 [mailto:[email protected]]
Posted At: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 7:48 AM
Posted To: microsoft.public.frontpage.programming
Conversation: save image with double click instead of right click
Subject: save image with double click instead of right click

I am creating a website for a client who has European visitors to their
site.
They need to have a page that contains high resolutions images for their

European visitors to download. They tell me that these European visitors

cannot or will not use the "right-click, save picture as.." function.
What
they want is the ability to simple "double-click" on an image and have
the
"save as" dialog box pop up.

I am desperate for an answer to this.