[AccessD] A2003: 2 Questions -Splash Screen and JPG Importdialogue

..if I were going to change something right now I'd go the GDI dll route 
which lets you use virtually any format anywhere in your app ...take a look 
at lebans updates and give it a try.

William Hindman


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gustav Brock" <Gustav at cactus.dk>
To: <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2004 10:39 AM
Subject: Re: [AccessD] A2003: 2 Questions -Splash Screen and JPG 
Importdialogue


> Hi William
>
> OK, thanks. Maybe I should give those emfs a closer look.
>
> /gustav
>
>>>> dejpolsys at hotmail.com 23-12-2004 15:21:21 >>>
> Gustav
>
> ..off the top of my head, bmps won't handle transparency ...as you
> probably
> know I tend to standardize and then stick with something until MS
> breaks it
> ..so using emfs is just something I started doing a few years back
> based on
> some lebans code I was working with at the time ...I think MS fixed the
>
> wmf/emf doubling in XP ...it used to load an entire copy of the image
> in the
> file header for some reason which effectively doubled the file size.
>
> ..once I get some time to play I'm going to look at distributing the MS
> GDI
> dll with my runtimes (all my clients use runtimes) which appears to
> solve
> all the various image format loading, sizing, and printing problems
> without
> the Office filters and without messing with the registry ...but then I
> have
> this 25 page list of things to do when I have the time :)
>
> William Hindman
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Gustav Brock" <Gustav at cactus.dk>
> To: <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
> Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2004 7:07 AM
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] A2003: 2 Questions -Splash Screen and JPG
> Importdialogue
>
>
>> Hi William
>>
>> Interesting observation!
>> Any advantage, in Access, of emf compared to bmp?
>> emf seems to be larger than bmp.
>
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