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Drawing objects in Access 2003 - can it be done on forms?

I want to do some primitive graphics work - drawing circles, squares,
lines and enable the user to manipulate these on an Access form. All
the drawing methods are on the report object so are there any (free)
third party controls or ways around this to enable drawing?

Any help would be most appreciated.

-- James

Nov 13 '05 #1
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In answer to my own question (in case it helps anyone), yes:

1) The cheating way: use a WMF image - Access *does* handle the
transparency so a circle will look round (not square) and the mousedown
only triggers when the non-transparent area gets clicked.

2) I found an excellent (and free) vector graphics ActiveX control that
seems fully featured for pretty much anything I can think of doing:
http://www.script-debugger.com/download/. Documentation is light but if
you play with it for an hour or so it's fairly obvious.

-- James

Nov 13 '05 #2

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