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Show a picture stored in Access on an Access form

Asked by bthouin in Access Forms, Access Coding/Macros

Hi

I'm pulling my hair out on what I thought would be a simple problem:
- I have an Access DB with a form
- in the DB, I have a table with 2 fields: image name, image ( of type OLE object)
- I have manged, by using code found on the Internet, to store a bitmap image in my table
- but now, for the life of me, I CANNOT retrieve this image into a simple image control or an OLE unbound frame !
- first I don't know which kind of control I should use (I've read control names on the Internet which I can't find in Access and also not in the add-ins)
- second a simple control doesn't seem to do

I get only weird errors like:
- The setting for this property is too long
- The bitmap you specified is not in a device-independant bitmap (.dib) format

You'll see in the code area what kind of things I tried which resulted all in errors or compile errors.

Can someone tell me how to "read in" my OLE object out of my simple table into a standard control on an Access form ? I'm despairing, mainly because of the time lost with this "simple problem". I am using MS Access 2002 SP3.

Bernard

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             Public Function SetImage(logo As String)
    Dim rs As Recordset
 
    Set rs = CurrentDb.OpenRecordset("SELECT Image FROM tbLogos WHERE ImageName = '" & logo & "'", dbOpenDynaset)
    Me.OLEUnboundFrame.SourceItem = rs!Image     ' Error: setting for property too long
    Me.OLEUnboundFrame.Action = acOLEEmbed
    Me.imgBox.PictureData = rs!Image                        ' bitmap format error
    'Me.imgBox.DataSource = rs                                 ' Compile error
    'Me.imgBox.DataField = "Image"                             ' Compile error
End Function

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Show a picture stored in Access on an Access form

Asked by bthouin in Access Forms, Access Coding/Macros

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