Display/Pull images from web onto form/into table?

[Fred Boer]

Hello:

I am experimenting with using Amazon Web Services to pull information into
an Access database. I want to be able to use the cover art images Amazon
makes available. At this point, I have gotten as far as being able to
acquire the URL that points to the image. I thought this would be easy but I
am struggling:

1. Is there a way, on a form, to set an image control to display the image
using a URL as a pointer? Is the web browser control the only way to do
this?

2. Is it possible / really hard to do / easy to somehow actually download
the image into the table using VBA?

Thanks!
Fred Boer

 

[Fred Boer]

P.S. I know about images and bloating.. I'm hoping to use Access 2007 *and*
hoping it is really true that you can store images in tables without
bloating...

Fred