How to display a TIF image in a form

[Eddie D]

My database has a reference and a hyperlink to a TIF image stored on the
local harddrive. I'd like to create a "PictureBox or Image" control to
display the image on the form. It seems that this only works with BMP's or
JPG's.
When I double click on the hyperlink, it opens it with Microsoft Image
Viewer. Is there an active x control?

Any ideas / suggestions would be much appreciated

 

[Wayne Morgan]

First, try a modification of your Office install and make sure you've
installed all of the graphics filters. It will probably take a custom
install to get all of them. If that doesn't help, Stephen Lebans has some
help for this here:

http://www.lebans.com/loadjpeggif.htm

 

[Wayne Morgan]

PS.

One thing to be aware of is that there is more than one TIF format. Even
some of the Microsoft programs that will open TIF files won't open all of
them and some of the programs will open some TIF files that the others won't
open. I suspect that some of the programs, such as the picture editing
programs and fax reader have their own filters, but I don't know that for
sure.