Images in reports

[Guest]

In the article "How to Display Images in a Form Without Storing the Images in
a Table" it is explained that you put the filename in a text box, add an
image control to the form, and then put a tiny bit of code in the OnCurrent &
After Update events:

Me![name of image control].Picture=Me![name of text field w/filename]

This works great! However, I wish to have the images appear on my reports,
but do not know what event(s) to hook to so the image shows on the screen and
when the report is printed.

 

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Tom,
Write the following code in reports open event
Private Sub Report_Open(Cancel As Integer)
Me![name of image control].Picture = Me![name of text field w/filename]
End Sub

In the article "How to Display Images in a Form Without Storing the Images in
a Table" it is explained that you put the filename in a text box, add an
image control to the form, and then put a tiny bit of code in the OnCurrent &
After Update events:

Me![name of image control].Picture=Me![name of text field w/filename]

This works great! However, I wish to have the images appear on my reports,
but do not know what event(s) to hook to so the image shows on the screen and
when the report is printed.

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[Larry Linson]

Tom,
Write the following code in reports open event
Private Sub Report_Open(Cancel As Integer)

This will certainly not work for a picture in every Detail Section. Use the
Print event of the Detail Section to set the Picture property.

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