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Hi,

I'm trying to add a button to Picasa that sends the selected images to ICE that stitches them together (see: http://olalindberg.com/blog/2008/10/11/picasa-microsoft-ice-button/ for more info). It currently works but there are some possible improvements.

 I have the following questions:

• Are there any register entries that I can use to point out the executable? Today I use the full path to the installation location which of course isn't very flexible.
• Is there any way to pass a startup argument to ICE telling it what path to suggest when exporting the stitched image? 

Thanks in advance!

Hi,

You can obtain the directory of the ICE executable by looking at where our shell extension is installed. The application will be in the same directory. The shell extension registration is here:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{1AC77AE9-9EC6-405A-9F9B-C06AB3C10B71}\InprocServer32\(Default)

The value here will typically be: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Research\Image Composite Editor\ShellExtension.dll

The application is called "ICE.exe", so you can strip the "ShellExtension.dll" off the end and replace it with "ICE.exe" and you'll have the actual installed location of the application.

There is currently no command line argument for specifying the default export directory, but this (along with other command-line options) is planned for a future release.

Thanks,
Bryan
Image Composite Editor Team