[AccessD] A really silly and dumb - maybe even ridiculous -accessquestion

Stuart McLachlan stuart at lexacorp.com.pg
Mon Oct 27 18:13:30 CST 2003


On 27 Oct 2003 at 17:33, John Bartow wrote:

> Hi Stuart:
> I store application information in a table. One piece of info I store is a
> graphic (as an OLE object field). I have always diplayed this on my SysInfo
> form, which was a bound form. Since I use the exact same table and SysInfo
> form in every application I create, I moved it to my common code library. I
> changed the entire form to work from the library and had to change the
> fields drawn from the table to unbound. Everything works fine now EXCEPT the
> graphic. The graphic will always be stored in the table and will not be
> moved to being kept as a file.
> 
> So the question is, how do I go about reading an OLE field from the table
> and presenting it for display on an unbound form?
> I am trying to read it into a variant and place it into an unbound object
> frame. I am not succeeding.
> 

Doesn't matter whether the form is bound or not. Still use a Bound Object 
Frame and assign it's source to the field in the table using DLookup. It 
will work.
-- 
Stuart McLachlan
Lexacorp Ltd
Application Development,  IT Consultancy
http://www.lexacorp.com.pg



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