How to programatically change the Picture property at runtime

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Rob - 05 Jan 2006 23:34 GMT

I want to programatically change the Picture property associated with an
Image object on a report at runtime... how and where would you do it ?

Tried On Format...
Me.imageName.Picture ="C:\image1.bmp"

But this does not work.

Thanks !

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freakazeud - 06 Jan 2006 00:30 GMT

Hi,
have a look at this nice tutorial:
http://www.databasedev.co.uk/bound_image_report.html
HTH
Good luck

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> I want to programatically change the Picture property associated with an
> Image object on a report at runtime... how and where would you do it ?
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> Thanks !

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Allen Browne - 06 Jan 2006 01:02 GMT

Rob, if you are doing this in a form, you can crash the database by doing
that:
http://www.mvps.org/access/bugs/bugs0044.htm

Stephen Lebans has posted more info on this if you search the newsgroups for
his posts. Use the archive at groups.google.com.

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> Hi,
> have a look at this nice tutorial:
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>> But this does not work.

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Stephen Lebans - 06 Jan 2006 01:20 GMT

Your code will work assuming:
1) The name of the Image control is "imageName"

2) There actually is a valid Bitmap file in your C:\ drive named
"image1.bmp"

Are you sure you are using the standard Image control, not one of the OLE
Frame controls?
What is the error that is being generated?

Finally, move your code to the PRINT event of the relevant section
containing the Image control.

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>I want to programatically change the Picture property associated with an
>Image object on a report at runtime... how and where would you do it ?
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> Thanks !

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Rob - 06 Jan 2006 02:38 GMT

Thanks for responding...

Arghh, I had a typo... it works...

But why on PRINT and not on Format ?

> Your code will work assuming:
> 1) The name of the Image control is "imageName"
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>> Thanks !

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Stephen Lebans - 06 Jan 2006 03:13 GMT

The Format event can be called multiple times which may result in a lack of
resources/memory issue.

Additionally, you need to turn off the "Loading Image" dialog that appears
as each image is loaded into the control. Use the Registry based mod here:
http://www.mvps.org/access/api/api0038.htm

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