jeannette_rivera said:
A friend provide me with a db to create a form to see pictures and
signatures
included in the db. This just have a table with 10 fields, 8 text and 2
OLE
Object. The OLE are pictures and signatures from members.
I create a form using the wizard but the form only show information on the
text fields, the OLE shows blank.
What can I do to see the pictures on the form?
Are you using a Bound OLE Frame, with control source of the OLE Object
fields, to display the pictures and signatures? Do you have a
COM-compliant/enabled graphics software package registered to handle the
file type of the images you have saved as OLE Objects? As I have often
said, when you use OLE Objects, you put yourself "at the mercy" of whatever
software you have (or the application user has) registered to handle the
file type of the images. There is also a Property on the Bound OLE Frame
regarding display of "thumbnail"; you might want to carefully examine the
properties of your OLE Frames to make certain it specifies displaying the
thumbnail.
Here's some reference material on images, but implementing it does require
some knowledge of using VBA code in Access (and, a beginner tutorial on that
subject is more extensive than a newsgroup response allows).
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
