Showing photos in forms or reports

[Dirk Goossens]

Hi!

I stored the file name and path of photos in a table with data from students
and teachers.
Is there a way to show the photos in a report or form?

Thanks!

Dirk Goossens
Vrij Instituut Sint-Lucas - Oudenaarde

[jcsilver3]

Hi,

Just add a normal image object to your form and add to your
form_current method something to the effect of:

Me.image1.picture = me.filename

John

[Larry Linson]

"Dirk Goossens" <di*****@skynet.be> wrote

I stored the file name and path of photos in a table with data from students and teachers. Is there a way to show the photos in a report or form?
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.
Thanks!

You are welcome.

Larry Linson
Microsoft Access MVP

[hendafe]

Place a code on the OnCurrent of the form that will point to the Image
gotten from the
toolbox on the form

Me.Image1.Picture = Nz([FileName])

The Nz takes care of the null problem when
the picture path is empty.

I hope this helps

he*****@yahoo.com