Pictures and old Access 2.0, form ant command to insert pictures

[Dusan]

Hellow, my name is Dusan and I have a big problem.
I need for my data base a form in which I will have diferent pictures for
each record.
1. I would like to create form and inside, command button which will browse
the pictures on my computer and write a path in a table, a command to delete
them one by one and a command for modification. Later to show them in a form
with a Bound Object Frame.
2. Access 2.0 doesnt have a Image control so I supose that I can use a Bound
Object frame, what I did. I dont want to permit to a normal user to use
design mode or to insert pictures with a right click of a mouse like insert
object.
3. Is it posible to show pictures in a form without using another program?
With jpg I have only a white icon wiht a name which I need to activate to see
the picture in Microsoft Picture Menager. With bmp I can see it small, very
small.

I found a lor of commentaries about the pictures, I tried them but something
I do wrong. I supose that they are for younger versions of a access.
So, if somebody can help me and explain me what to do, I think that can
progress my tecnik of copy paste in modules. Sometimes I dont know where to
write it.
Tkanks

 

[Larry Linson]

In Access 2.0 days, you could pay the price for using Bound Object Frames or
you could use a third-party ActiveX Control. I worked on one project in
which we evaluated two third party controls for displaying images, one that
was inexpensive and simple to use and a second that was very expensive and
complex to use. The management decided to adopt the second one, expensive
and complex -- go figure.

The simple and inexpensive control was not updated for later versions, and
the version I tested was withdrawn from marketing in the mid-1990s. As they
were getting out of that business, I suggested they make it available to the
Open Source community, but their legal advisor cautioned them against doing
so. I do not even know if the company that produced it is still in
business -- they were not primarily a creator of software but a vendor of
graphics hardware and other company's graphic software.

However, the 16-bit version of even the expensive and complex control is no
longer marketed, though the company still sells a 32-bit control which
appears still to be both expensive and complex.

Larry Linson
Microsoft Access MVP