Gustav Brock
Gustav at cactus.dk
Thu Dec 23 06:07:52 CST 2004
Hi William Interesting observation! Any advantage, in Access, of emf compared to bmp? emf seems to be larger than bmp. /gustav >>> dejpolsys at hotmail.com 23-12-2004 08:51:33 >>> Darren ..I use a one pixel bmp to suppress the Access splash screen and then load my own splash form with timer so that I control what the user sees rather than what the cpu or Redmond decides to present ...the one pixel bmp is named exactly the same as the mdb but with the bmp extension ...it has to be an actual bmp file, not a renamed rle or jpg, etc. ...it sets in the same directory and is inevitably the file immediately above the associated mdb in explorer when sorted by name ...this has worked in every mdb since '97 and continues to work for me in 2K3 ...I can't speak to what effect a large bmp splash might have since I don't use them. ..as for the import dialog problem, jpgs are not a native Access graphic format and one way or another the format has to be converted ...rather than do work arounds and mess with client registry keys I normally convert any jpg to an emf graphics file format (which Access handles as a native graphic with no conversion required ...emf is the format used by the Win GDI for copy/paste operations for instance) before using it in Access ...you have to be sure the emf is a good conversion since there are a number of format converters that only switch the file header and leave the actual raster as is (I use paintshoppro) ...another Redmond "special effect" is that regardless of what the actual file extension is on your HD, you must call the file as an .emf rather than .EMF ...if your code uses the capital letters in the extension Windows WILL try to use the Office graphics file filter (and thus the dialog) rather than seeing it as a native file format ..don't ask me why, don't know, don't care, MS is MS :( ..hth :) PS ...Steve Lebans has a ton of in depth material on graphics conversions within Access and a wealth of resources in other areas as well ...well worth a spin www.lebans.com William Hindman