Sounds like you are trying to recreate Windows Explorer functionalities
within access. Sorry to say, I do not believe you can.
You can easily list all the file and bring up the image of the selected
file, but as far as giving a thumbnail preview of all the files,..., I think
you may be out of luck.
I did a little digging and came across the following (look at the last post).
http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.c...536921&page=20
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Hope this helps,
Daniel Pineault
http://www.cardaconsultants.com/
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"Vincent" wrote:
> Hello guys,
>
> I'm developing an Access app with MS Access 2007 on
> Windows XP.
>
> On the right half screen pane, I need to display thumbnails of all images
> (.jpg and .tif) I scanned and located in a folder, using VBA code. When
> clicking on one of them, the same image must be displayed
> in normal size in the left half pane of the screen so the user is enabled to
> rotate it if necessary and then save it.
>
> The Access help is of no use, it does not explain how to do it. In some Help
> files, the example code does not even work (there is no picture box in the
> control list, only Image control, so why give an example with
> 'picture.Picture = C:\...')??? Is it only working on Office 2003?
>
> Can you give some ideas, sample code or any suggestion?
>
> Thanks a lot in advance.
>