Displaying product pictures in a form

[Guest]

I am attempting to display a products picture along with its description in
my product form. I have created the following code in my query to provide
the DB with a file path for the picture and I have named the .jpg files
identically to the product ID's.

ProductPicture: "C:\Documents and Settings\Mike
Konopinski\Desktop\"+[ProductID]+".jpg"

Upon running the query the file path is perfect but the picture doesn't
display, I receive an OLE Object error when I click on the picture panel.
Thanks,
Mike Konopinski

 

[Larry Linson]

I am attempting to display a products
picture along with its description in
my product form. I have created the
following code in my query to provide
the DB with a file path for the picture
and I have named the .jpg files
identically to the product ID's.

ProductPicture: "C:\Documents and Settings\Mike
Konopinski\Desktop\"+[ProductID]+".jpg"

Upon running the query the file path is
perfect but the picture doesn't display,
I receive an OLE Object error when I
click on the picture panel.

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