Pictures in forms

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Mike Busch

I have tired unsucessfully to have pictures in a form in
access. When I set up the table I have OEL object field.
In the table when I try to select a jpg. and in the form
just the icon appears with the title of the image. When I
try a bitmap, my results are of a thumbnail of the image.
Can some one stear me in the right direction. Need this to
have a form with personal information and their image on
the form. Thanks in advance.
 
Mike said:
I have tired unsucessfully to have pictures in a form in
access. When I set up the table I have OEL object field.
In the table when I try to select a jpg. and in the form
just the icon appears with the title of the image. When I
try a bitmap, my results are of a thumbnail of the image.
Can some one stear me in the right direction. Need this to
have a form with personal information and their image on
the form. Thanks in advance.
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What method are you using to insert the pictures? Does your form have
the "bound object frame" control for the picture? The sample database
Northwind has a good example of how to do this using the Employee table
and associated form.
 
Mike Busch said:
I have tired unsucessfully to have pictures in a form in
access. When I set up the table I have OEL object field.
In the table when I try to select a jpg. and in the form
just the icon appears with the title of the image.
Click to expand...

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, and
some other problems, 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
 
The only way I can put pictures or photos on forms is to use the ms word picture on the object menu. I have to put the picture onto a word document and copy and paste.
 
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