AnnotationSearchOrder Property

This property allows you to specify the different places, in order of importance that ThumbnailXpress should look for associated annotation data when rendering a thumbnail. For each thumbnail that is being rendered, the first rule in the list that successfully points to annotation data will be used to draw those annotations on the thumbnail.

Syntax

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'Declaration
 
<BrowsableAttribute(False)>
<DesignerSerializationVisibilityAttribute(DesignerSerializationVisibility.Hidden)>
Public ReadOnly Property AnnotationSearchOrder As AnnotationSearchRuleCollection(Of AnnotationSearchRule)

'Usage
 
Dim instance As ThumbnailXpress
Dim value As AnnotationSearchRuleCollection(Of AnnotationSearchRule)
 
value = instance.AnnotationSearchOrder

[Browsable(false)]
[DesignerSerializationVisibility(DesignerSerializationVisibility.Hidden)]
public AnnotationSearchRuleCollection<AnnotationSearchRule> AnnotationSearchOrder {get;}

[Browsable(false)]
[DesignerSerializationVisibility(DesignerSerializationVisibility.Hidden)]
public: __property AnnotationSearchRuleCollection<AnnotationSearchRule*>* get_AnnotationSearchOrder();

[Browsable(false)]
[DesignerSerializationVisibility(DesignerSerializationVisibility.Hidden)]
public:
property AnnotationSearchRuleCollection<AnnotationSearchRule^>^ AnnotationSearchOrder {
   AnnotationSearchRuleCollection<AnnotationSearchRule^>^ get();
}

Remarks

By default, this list is pre-populated to match all internal annotations. So, if you have connected ThumbnailXpress to an instance of NotateXpress, then any image files which contain embedded NotateXpress, Imaging for Windows (WANG), or XFDF (PDF) annotations will have their annotations rendered automatically. But if you have annotation data stored in external files, or if you don't want ThumbnailXpress to search for certain internal annotation data, you can customize this list. You can add both internal and external annotation search rules to the list using instances of InternalAnnotationSearchRule and ExternalAnnotationSearchRule, respectively. An internal rule specifies only the type of annotation data to search for within the image file itself, while an external rule allows you to specify both the annotation type and how the associated annotation file is named in relation to the original image file (it must be named the same as the image file and exist in the same directory but contain a different prefix or suffix, as indicated by your rule).

Reference

ThumbnailXpress Class
ThumbnailXpress Members