Background on a form

[Jacob]

Is it possible to add a pictured background on a form???

 

[Jeff Conrad]

Sure, go to the form's Properties list.
On the "Format" or "All" tabs you will see an option that says "Picture."
Right now it will probably say (none) since no picture is selected.
Click the little (...) button to browse to the graphic file you wish to use as the background.
You can embed the picture or link to it on the "Picture Type" property item.

*Warning*
Excessive use of adding pictures will dramatically increase the size of your database.

 

[Jacob]

If I use it as a LINK opposed to Embedded, is that better???

 

[Jeff Conrad]

Linking the picture will keep the database size from growing too much I believe, but you may also
see a "loading picture" screen. Not positive about that so don't quote me.

You should be careful if the location of the picture/graphic file changes. You may need to trap for
the error that could be raised if Access cannot find the file.

Embedding is sometimes fine, just don't do it too much. I usually just embed one small picture on my
main switchboard form instead of linking. The rest of my forms all use just the Windows background
system color.

One last thing: do NOT embed or link a picture file to a background on a continuous form! You could
run into "low resources" problems.