[AccessD] Need rectangle with rounded corners

David McAfee davidmcafee at gmail.com
Tue Jun 14 23:31:27 CDT 2016


What didn't work with paint?

I was able to put one on a form
On Jun 14, 2016 4:51 PM, "Rocky Smolin" <rockysmolin at bchacc.com> wrote:

> My MS Paint isn't working but I have Irfan and tried it but couldn't see
> how
> to draw the figure and get it into the Access report so that it is
> stretchable.  There don't seem to be any tools like you have in Word.
>
> r
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: AccessD [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of
> Stuart McLachlan
> Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2016 3:11 PM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Need rectangle with rounded corners
>
> You can also do it it Irfanview - and have transparent cells.
>
> --
> Stuart
>
> On 14 Jun 2016 at 10:16, David McAfee wrote:
>
> > You can make a rounded rectangle in Paint and save it as a bmp file.
> > The only thing is paint doesn't allow for transparent cells (or at
> > least I don't know how to do that), so you'll have to make sure the
> > form/report's background is white, or the corners of the bmp file have
> > to be colored to match the form/report background color.
> >
> > I used to love MS Draw form making my own shapes / buttons.
> >
> > D
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 10:00 AM, Rocky Smolin
> > <rockysmolin at bchacc.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Dear List:
> > >
> > > I have a requirement from a client for a purchase order where they
> > > want the Vendor, Bill To, and Ship To info in a rectangle with
> > > rounded corners.
> > >
> > > Been trying to make one that will stretch with no luck.  Not an
> > > image off the web.
> > >
> > > But I'll bet there's an easy way to this this that I'm not aware of.
> > >
> > > What is the easiest way to create a stretchable or zoomable box with
> > > rounded corners.
> > >
> > > MTIA,
> > >
> > > Rocky
> > >
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