Drawing Shapes on Forms ?

[Dave Ruhl]

After working with Visual FoxPro for so many years, I
guess I took for granted it's ability to draw shapes on
forms (circles, ellipses, triangles, etc...). I can't
seem to find a way to do this in Access, other than
importing an image. Am I missing something ? Thanks...

 

[Adam]

After working with Visual FoxPro for so many years, I
guess I took for granted it's ability to draw shapes on
forms (circles, ellipses, triangles, etc...). I can't
seem to find a way to do this in Access, other than
importing an image. Am I missing something ? Thanks...

Unless I'm missing something too, the facility for drawing on forms in
Access 2000 is very basic, and is limited to straight lines and rectangles.
But what you can do, without having to import an image, is to insert a
Microsoft Draw object on a form. Do this via 'Object...' on the Insert menu.
You can then use all the functionality of Microsoft Draw on the form. But
maybe it's easier just to import an image.

HTH

Adam

 

[Dave Ruhl]

Thanks Adam, I guess I'll try the image approach (sigh...)

 

[Stephen Lebans]

See:
http://www.lebans.com/imageclass.htm
ImageClass has been replaced by the PictureBoxA97 project. A standard
Image control is wrapped within a class to allow the control to resemble
the standard Visual Basic PictureBox control. Simple drawing methods are
directly supported as is Text output with rotation. A handle to a Device
Context is exposed to allow the developer to use the full range of
Graphic API's. Also supports Screen Grabs, Copy to Clipboard and Save
Image control to a disk Bitmap file. Here is the Access 2000 version,
PictureBoxA2K.zip
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HTH
Stephen Lebans
http://www.lebans.com
Access Code, Tips and Tricks
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