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

Thanks to all who replied
I will battle on

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Darren
 

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of William Hindman
Sent: Friday, 24 December 2004 4:22 AM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [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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