Need ActiveX to Display a TIF image
Greg de Bruin
from within a form. I need an image control that will display the TIF on
the form and even allow the user to pan and zoom around the image while
still in the form (not shelling out to Kodak Imaging or something like
that).
Anyone know how to do it?
Alick [MSFT]
I am not aware if there is any free third-party control for displaying TIF
image file, and Microsoft Access doesn't have native built-in control for
displaying TIF format image. Though we can use Object Frame Object control
to bind to TIF file, however, the control on the form only would display
the name of the image file. This is because the OLE storage model in Access
is designed to handle a myriad of different types of data through the use
of OLE Servers. In order to achieve this, all OLE objects need to be in a
format that we can render within the Access environment. We use a Device
Independent Bitmap. For the TIF image, there is no OLE Server application
installed on the target machine to render the image. That's why it is
displayed as Package.
You use any of the following two workarounds to resolve the problem:
1. Use Microsoft Photo Editor to open each TIF image file and convert it to
a JPEG
file. (On the File menu of Microsoft Photo Editor, click Save As and change
the
Save as type to "JPEG File Interchange Format (*.jpg, *.jpeg)")
2. Use Visual Basic code and the Image control to display the TIF image
from the
TIF file outside of the Access database. This article assumes that you are
familiar
with the programming language being demonstrated and the tools used to
create and debug procedures.
285820.KB.EN-US ACC2002: How to Display Images from a Folder in a Form, a
Report
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;285820
Please feel free to let me know if the above information helps or you need
further assistance.
Sincerely,
Alick Ye, MCSD
Product Support Services
Microsoft Corporation
Get Secure! - <www.microsoft.com/security>
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
--------------------
| From: "Greg de Bruin" <Gr...@ajdebruin.com>
| Subject: Need ActiveX to Display a TIF image
Jeff Bennett
Try either ImageMan from Data Techniques ( www.Data-Tech.com ) or
LeadTools from LeadTools ( www.LeadTools.com ).
I have more direct experience with ImageMan - Several of our customers
who using MetaDraw for image annotation have reported great
satisfaction use ImageMan for the TIF ( and other file format )
support and for features such as Brightness and Contrast enhancement.
Both controls however are excellent and have been around for a long
while with good support. I'm confident either would meet your needs
but you should double check with them about Access support - Some
controls may have restrictions in Access compared to other programming
environments which produce EXEs.
* * Please include a copy of this note with your reply
Jeff Bennett President
Je...@Bennet-Tec.Com
Bennet-Tec Information Systems, Inc
50 Jericho Tpk, Jericho, NY 11753
Phone 516 997 5596, Fax - 5597
WWW.Bennet-Tec.Com
RELIABLE Component Software
and Software Development Services
* TList/Pro * ALLText HT/Pro * MetaDraw *
====================== ======================
nos...@viscomsoft.com
try image viewer cp activex that support zoom in,out and tif,jpg...
Rodeca
or kodak -w98,wme,w2k-) which may be embedded in a form. For example: in W2k
search \winnt\system32\img*.ocx. Finding the help is not so easy, but anyway
it is in MSDN as well.
BUT it doesn't exist in WXP: no more (free) Imaging for us :"-(
HIH
Rodeca
"Greg de Bruin" <Gr...@ajdebruin.com> escribió en el mensaje
news:#3uGANMm...@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
Michael Volz
application? An if you get the control into VB, what is
the syntax for programmatically adding an image to a Wang
Imaging or Kodak Imaging ActiveX control? Any help or
hints on this topic would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
in advance.
>.
>