In Visual Basics I have my code that says:
Dim Notes As String
Notes = ...
I want to be able to say something like:
Dim Picture As ?
Picture = OLEPic
What would I set the picture type as?
I assume you are, in fact, speaking about the Visual Basic for Applications
that is used in Microsoft Access, the subject of this newsgroup. If not,
then you need to ask your question in a newsgroup devoted to the (separate)
Visual Basic language product.
What is it that you intend to do with a Picture "object"? That's certainly
not how we display pictures in Access.
The sample imaging databases at
http://accdevel.tripod.com illustrate three
approaches to handling images in Access, and the download includes an
article discussing considerations in choosing an approach. Two of the
approaches do not use OLE Objects and, thus, avoid the database bloat
associated with images in OLE Objects.
If you are printing the images in reports, to avoid memory leakage, you
should also see MVP Stephen Lebans'
http://www.lebans.com/printfailures.htm
PrintFailure.zip is an Access97 MDB containing a report that fails during
the Access formatting process prior to being spooled to the Printer Driver.
This MDB also contains code showing how to convert the contents of the Image
control to a Bitmap file prior to printing. This helps alleviate the "Out of
Memory" error that can popup when printing image intensive reports.
Larry Linson
Microsoft Access MVP