How to Create My Own Self Define Icon in BUTTON

[edisonl via AccessMonster.com]

Hi,

1.Just to make my application more user friendly, I like to create an icon
with my own define pics..
(Eg: Button with Handphone Symbol?)

2. Anyone knows how to do it ?


Edison

 

[Arvin Meyer [MVP]]

Create your bitmap (.bmp) file to the size you wish. In the form's Design
View select the button and open the property sheet. Go to the picture
property on the Format tab and either type in the path to the picture or use
the ellipses(...) button to navigate to the bitmap. Save the form and open
in form view. Done!

 

[Al Campagna]

edison,
You can use an external icon editing program to create your icon. There
are many freeware apps out there.
Create your button, and in the button's Picture property, select Browse
and link to the icon you created.

Actually though in the Button's Picture Builder, my access (2003)
has two phone icons already in the "Available Pictures" section,
called... Phone 1 and Phone 2. They might do the job.
--
hth
Al Campagna
Microsoft Access MVP
http://home.comcast.net/~cccsolutions/index.html

"Find a job that you love... and you'll never work a day in your life."

 

[edisonl via AccessMonster.com]

Hi Al Campagna:

Thanks for replying, basically I meet with little hiccups forgot to ask is
there anyway I can resize the picture?

It seems to be in 'stretch' mode

Edison

edison,
You can use an external icon editing program to create your icon. There
are many freeware apps out there.
Create your button, and in the button's Picture property, select Browse
and link to the icon you created.

Actually though in the Button's Picture Builder, my access (2003)
has two phone icons already in the "Available Pictures" section,
called... Phone 1 and Phone 2. They might do the job.

Hi,

[quoted text clipped - 5 lines]

Edison

 

[Al Campagna]

edisonl,
Not sure about 2007, but...
Not directly in Access. Button icons, or bitmaps, when used as a
picture source of a button, does not allow sizing. You'll need to size them
at creation.

You may be confusing "button pictures" with the Form's Insert/Picture
where a picture is placed on a form. Those can be sized... button images
can not directly be sized in Access.

Check out this link which discusses icon sizes. (16x16, 24x24... etc)
MSPaint can be used to develop .bmps of the same size, but an icon editor
would be easier.
--
hth
Al Campagna
Microsoft Access MVP
http://home.comcast.net/~cccsolutions/index.html

"Find a job that you love... and you'll never work a day in your life."

Hi Al Campagna:

Thanks for replying, basically I meet with little hiccups forgot to ask is
there anyway I can resize the picture?

It seems to be in 'stretch' mode

Edison

edison,
You can use an external icon editing program to create your icon.
There
are many freeware apps out there.
Create your button, and in the button's Picture property, select
Browse
and link to the icon you created.

Actually though in the Button's Picture Builder, my access (2003)
has two phone icons already in the "Available Pictures" section,
called... Phone 1 and Phone 2. They might do the job.

Hi,

[quoted text clipped - 5 lines]

Edison

 

[Arvin Meyer [MVP]]

Hi Al Campagna:

Thanks for replying, basically I meet with little hiccups forgot to ask is
there anyway I can resize the picture?

Have a look at Irfanview, which makes it easy to resize images:

http://www.irfanview.com