Displaying Web Images in an MDB Form

[Guest]

I have an Access 2003 MDB (in Access 2000 format), which I'll reduce for the
purpose of this discussion to one table and one form:

- The table contains one text field, each row representing the path to a
different JPG image on my hard drive.

- The form contains a textbox that displays the path, and a bound image
control that displays the actual image; the .Picture property of the image
control is set in code to the value of the textbox.

My objective is to keep my local MDB (not to create or publish HTML pages),
but to have it display images from a web site instead of from my hard drive.
Unfortunately, merely replacing the local paths in the text field with the
corresponding URLs doesn't do the trick.

Please tell this old Access guy how to become Web-aware. TIA!

 

[Guest]

OK, it seems that a Microsoft Web Browser control placed on an Access form
will display a web-based image using the .Navigate method. Unfortunately,
the Web Browser control doesn't seem to support a Size Mode property like
that of the Access image control. As a result, an image larger than the
control sprouts scroll bars instead of automatically scaling to fit.

Suggestions, please, that don't involve purchasing a third-party control?
TIA, once again!