[AccessD] Floor Plan Grid

William,
 Unfortunately I'm working on a similar problem, but from the other end of
the spectrum. It seems that you would like to view interactive graphics from
Access, however I took another approach. For my situation, I'm choosing to
utilize the graphics capabilities of AutoCAD, then couple that with
AutoCAD's database connectivity feature to get the updated data for any one
particular graphic.
 My project is similar in that I am working with an office layout and the
data relates to all the personnel and IT hardware and software information.
 Although I do not need this functionality at the moment, an educated
assumption would be that, from Access, one could automate AutoCAD to produce
a current "snapshot" as a ".DWF" (for lack of a better description it is
their light-weight web format) on-the-fly, then view that image in an
embedded browser control. Using their ".DWF" format, you are able to pan,
zoom, turn layers on/off, etc. right from the browser.
  Mark


 On 11/8/05, William Hindman <wdhindman at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
> ...need some ideas here ...or if someone knows of something already.
>
> ...Access 2003 runtime compatible.
>
> ...I need to display on a single Access form ...a grid of as many as 2000
> rectangles.
>
> ...the rectangles would represent booths in a trade show floor plan
> ...each
> distinctly numbered
> and each clickable to call detail data ...and each individually colored to
> reflect status.
>
> ...did I mention that I'd like to be able to zoom and pan the grid?
>
> ...I've tried a number of activex products like metadraw ...but all
> require
> compromises I
> don't want to make.
>
> ...did I mention this needs to be reasonably fast in 2.6Mhz, 1gb ram
> workstations?
>
> ...ok ...I'm nuts ...but I thought I'd at least throw it out there ...my
> head hurts from too much
> pounding against the wall :)
>
> ...still no electric as a result of Wilma ...working on a laptop sucks
> bigtime ...but it is work.
>
> William
>
>
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