Add Picture (jpg)

[Guest]

I want to add a field in my table that needs to show a picture. Do I use a
hyperlink to the jpg or an OLE Object. Then how do I get the picture to show
up in a query. This query/table ? will have to be exported to a label program
to print picture.

 

[Larry Linson]

I want to add a field in my table that
needs to show a picture. Do I use a
hyperlink to the jpg or an OLE Object.
Then how do I get the picture to show
up in a query. This query/table ? will
have to be exported to a label program
to print picture.

Eh? "Exported to a label program?" You need to clarify... if this is some
software external to Access, then to even begin to answer your question, you
would have to explain that program's import requirements.

I create my labels from Access data, using Access Reports... there are
Wizards available for many sizes of label, and you can, if you wish, create
your own from scratch.

The sample doesn't include every possible way: it does not, for example,
include hyperlinking, but I have used that approach on Forms. I wouldn't
know how to use it in a report, which isn't interactive.

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

 

[Guest]

yes I was at that website already, I have Access 2003 and looked at it anyway
and no help. Let's skip the lable program for now (as I agree with using
Access reports for that). I am getting an icon and not the picture displayed
in the report/query using an OLE embedded. I', stuck.

 

[Larry Linson]

yes I was at that website already, I have Access
2003 and looked at it anyway and no help. . . . I
am getting an icon and not the picture displayed
in the report/query using an OLE embedded.

Somewhere in my response, I mentioned the "bloat and some other problems"
associated with OLE Objects. Here's some more homework: If you just execute
my example of OLE Objects, do you see the picture or just an icon? If you
see the icon, then you "have put yourself at the mercy of whatever software
is registered for the image file type" and that software is the culprit.

If not, then you can open _your_ Bound OLE Frame in design view, right-click
and select Properties to view the PropertySheet, and look under the Data tab
for Display Type, which should be "Content" rather than "Icon".

In fact, here's the text that appears under the picture in the OLE Object
example: "Note: If only an icon appears, that is due to your choice of
application to be associated with this image file type. Double-click to open
the automation server application and view the image. If the image is a type
that can be displayed by Internet Explorer 4 or later (e.g., .JPG or .GIF)
setting Internet Explorer as the application to display the file type will
probably allow the picture itself to be displayed."

But, if your registered software displays the image embedded in my OLE
Object, and the Display Type is "Content" and the Display When is set to
"Always" or "Print Only" not "Screen Only", then obviously there is some
other setting that is affecting the display.