"Darren Allen" wrote
Here's some fresh meat for the
newsgroup hyenas.
Eh? Would you care to clarify whether that was intended to be "cute" or
insulting?
How do I get my user forms to display
a linked image file for each record.
(Eg. person's mugshot on a form with
their personal details). This sounds
simple, and I'm surprised that I haven't
worked it out yet.
. . .
Thanks, and sorry for wasting your valuable time.
If we thought answering questions in newsgroups was a waste, chances are
high that we wouldn't do it. Most of us have been helped many, many times
and the only repayment ever asked was that, when able, we help someone else.
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
