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From: Costa Zu on 23 Apr 2007 23:31
Hello,

This is still driving me crazy.

I am trying to create a continuous subform down the right hand side of
my main form. The subform simply contains a list of thumbnails that I
want to display in a continuous form. I used to have a tall skinny
subform that just scrolled up and down, but now my list is too long
for the maximum height.

When I created the continuous subform the image displayed in each
record defaulted to that of the current record. Advice that I've
received here does not seem to have helped. This is the advice that I
have received to date:

1.
Advice: Upgrade to 2007 because that will do what I want to do.
Action: I upgraded. Bad advice. Images are treated the same as in
2003. Ie: that doesn't work.

2.
Advice: Use MSFLXGRD.OCX and look at
http://www.lebans.com/conditionalformatting.htm
Action: Great idea! I can see the demo. I want to do something
similar to the thing with the flags. However, when I try to add the
control to my form I get the following message:

"You dont have the licence required to use this ActiveX control"

Now what do I do?

Geez! My problem is simple ... give me an Image control that works
the same way as a text box in a continuous form. i.e: displays the
image associated with the right record. Is there no one else in the
world who wants to do this? I am at a total loss and extremely
disappointed with MS and MS Access.

Can anyone help me out?

Thanks

Costa
From: Peter Hibbs on 24 Apr 2007 09:47
Costa

Don't panic, it is possible.

What you need to do is have a field for each image in your table. Make
the field types OLE Object and insert then into your Continuous form.
Then you can just copy and paste your images into the relevant fields
when the form is displayed. I think the only problem with this method
is that the images are stored within the database file so if you have
a large number of large images (in KB that is) the file could be quite
large. Northwind database uses this method to show Employee images on
a form (although not a Continuous form in this case).

I suggest you try that method first. If you have a large number of
images you can also do the insert image part using some VBA code but
that is a bit more complicated.

HTH

Peter Hibbs.


On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 13:31:04 +1000, Costa Zu <get_cool(a)hotmail.com>
wrote:

>Hello,
>
>This is still driving me crazy.
>
>I am trying to create a continuous subform down the right hand side of
>my main form. The subform simply contains a list of thumbnails that I
>want to display in a continuous form. I used to have a tall skinny
>subform that just scrolled up and down, but now my list is too long
>for the maximum height.
>
>When I created the continuous subform the image displayed in each
>record defaulted to that of the current record. Advice that I've
>received here does not seem to have helped. This is the advice that I
>have received to date:
>
>1.
>Advice: Upgrade to 2007 because that will do what I want to do.
>Action: I upgraded. Bad advice. Images are treated the same as in
>2003. Ie: that doesn't work.
>
>2.
>Advice: Use MSFLXGRD.OCX and look at
>http://www.lebans.com/conditionalformatting.htm
>Action: Great idea! I can see the demo. I want to do something
>similar to the thing with the flags. However, when I try to add the
>control to my form I get the following message:
>
>"You dont have the licence required to use this ActiveX control"
>
>Now what do I do?
>
>Geez! My problem is simple ... give me an Image control that works
>the same way as a text box in a continuous form. i.e: displays the
>image associated with the right record. Is there no one else in the
>world who wants to do this? I am at a total loss and extremely
>disappointed with MS and MS Access.
>
>Can anyone help me out?
>
>Thanks
>
>Costa
From: Costa Zu on 25 Apr 2007 23:40
Peter,

Thanks for the advice. I used the Attachment method in Access 2007
and it is working fine. As I am only dealing with thumbnails I don't
mind the objects being stored in the database. When I click on the
thumbnail it takes the main form to the record selected. The main
form uses Image controls to load the images to display.

I would still like to know how to license the MSFLXGRD.OCX though,
because I will be needing to display a matrix of images later.

Thanks for your help,

Costa

On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 14:47:00 +0100, Peter Hibbs
<peter.hibbs(a)btinternet.com.NO_SPAM> wrote:

>Costa
>
>Don't panic, it is possible.
>
>What you need to do is have a field for each image in your table. Make
>the field types OLE Object and insert then into your Continuous form.
>Then you can just copy and paste your images into the relevant fields
>when the form is displayed. I think the only problem with this method
>is that the images are stored within the database file so if you have
>a large number of large images (in KB that is) the file could be quite
>large. Northwind database uses this method to show Employee images on
>a form (although not a Continuous form in this case).
>
>I suggest you try that method first. If you have a large number of
>images you can also do the insert image part using some VBA code but
>that is a bit more complicated.
>
>HTH
>
>Peter Hibbs.
>
>
>On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 13:31:04 +1000, Costa Zu <get_cool(a)hotmail.com>
>wrote:
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>This is still driving me crazy.
>>
>>I am trying to create a continuous subform down the right hand side of
>>my main form. The subform simply contains a list of thumbnails that I
>>want to display in a continuous form. I used to have a tall skinny
>>subform that just scrolled up and down, but now my list is too long
>>for the maximum height.
>>
>>When I created the continuous subform the image displayed in each
>>record defaulted to that of the current record. Advice that I've
>>received here does not seem to have helped. This is the advice that I
>>have received to date:
>>
>>1.
>>Advice: Upgrade to 2007 because that will do what I want to do.
>>Action: I upgraded. Bad advice. Images are treated the same as in
>>2003. Ie: that doesn't work.
>>
>>2.
>>Advice: Use MSFLXGRD.OCX and look at
>>http://www.lebans.com/conditionalformatting.htm
>>Action: Great idea! I can see the demo. I want to do something
>>similar to the thing with the flags. However, when I try to add the
>>control to my form I get the following message:
>>
>>"You dont have the licence required to use this ActiveX control"
>>
>>Now what do I do?
>>
>>Geez! My problem is simple ... give me an Image control that works
>>the same way as a text box in a continuous form. i.e: displays the
>>image associated with the right record. Is there no one else in the
>>world who wants to do this? I am at a total loss and extremely
>>disappointed with MS and MS Access.
>>
>>Can anyone help me out?
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>Costa

From: Costa Zu on 26 Apr 2007 00:56
Hi Peter, again,

I'm implementing my sub-form with Attachments as a continuous form but
an interesting thing has occurred when I inserted the form into my
main form:- only the current record is displaying in the sub-form. I
think this might have something to do with linking the master fields
and child fields.

Basically, the sub-form works as a vertical scroll bar showing all the
different records in a continuous form. The main form displays a
detailed record of the current record selected in the sub-form.
However, the sub-form is now also only displaying the current record
in the continuous form ... ie: 1 picture.

Any advice?

I think this may be because I haven't set up my Access 2007 Options
properly yet. In that regard, I hope the next version of Office at
least GIVES YOU THE OPTION of using traditional menus or the ribbon.

Regards

Costa.

On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 14:47:00 +0100, Peter Hibbs
<peter.hibbs(a)btinternet.com.NO_SPAM> wrote:

>Costa
>
>Don't panic, it is possible.
>
>What you need to do is have a field for each image in your table. Make
>the field types OLE Object and insert then into your Continuous form.
>Then you can just copy and paste your images into the relevant fields
>when the form is displayed. I think the only problem with this method
>is that the images are stored within the database file so if you have
>a large number of large images (in KB that is) the file could be quite
>large. Northwind database uses this method to show Employee images on
>a form (although not a Continuous form in this case).
>
>I suggest you try that method first. If you have a large number of
>images you can also do the insert image part using some VBA code but
>that is a bit more complicated.
>
>HTH
>
>Peter Hibbs.
>
>
>On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 13:31:04 +1000, Costa Zu <get_cool(a)hotmail.com>
>wrote:
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>This is still driving me crazy.
>>
>>I am trying to create a continuous subform down the right hand side of
>>my main form. The subform simply contains a list of thumbnails that I
>>want to display in a continuous form. I used to have a tall skinny
>>subform that just scrolled up and down, but now my list is too long
>>for the maximum height.
>>
>>When I created the continuous subform the image displayed in each
>>record defaulted to that of the current record. Advice that I've
>>received here does not seem to have helped. This is the advice that I
>>have received to date:
>>
>>1.
>>Advice: Upgrade to 2007 because that will do what I want to do.
>>Action: I upgraded. Bad advice. Images are treated the same as in
>>2003. Ie: that doesn't work.
>>
>>2.
>>Advice: Use MSFLXGRD.OCX and look at
>>http://www.lebans.com/conditionalformatting.htm
>>Action: Great idea! I can see the demo. I want to do something
>>similar to the thing with the flags. However, when I try to add the
>>control to my form I get the following message:
>>
>>"You dont have the licence required to use this ActiveX control"
>>
>>Now what do I do?
>>
>>Geez! My problem is simple ... give me an Image control that works
>>the same way as a text box in a continuous form. i.e: displays the
>>image associated with the right record. Is there no one else in the
>>world who wants to do this? I am at a total loss and extremely
>>disappointed with MS and MS Access.
>>
>>Can anyone help me out?
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>Costa

From: Peter Hibbs on 26 Apr 2007 09:11
Hi Costa,

Firstly, I don't have Access 2007 so I cannot help if there are
problems that are specific to this version of Access.

I am some trouble visualising your set up, do you have two tables, one
for the main form and one for the subform with a 1 - Many
relationship. It sounds to me as if you have the main form AND the
subform bound to the same table, I don't think that will work. I
created a Continuos type form with several OLE Object fields and
embedded that in another form and it works fine. I think you must be
doing something wrong there.

Regarding the Flex Grid control, I got it by installing Visual Studio
6 which has Visual Basic 6, Visual J++ and Visual C++ 6, if you can
find a (cheap) copy of this software then that will give you the
necessary License. You may also be able to purchase the control direct
from Microsoft but I don't know how or how much it would cost to do
this.

Alternatively, you could try using the VideoSoft FlexGrid control
which I believe may come with Access, it shows up as :-) VideoSoft
FlexArray Control in the list of ActiveX controls. This control is
compatible with the Microsoft version but has a few more useful
facilities like being able to edit cells directly. However, you still
need to pay for it to use it properly. Whenever you open a form with a
VideoSoft grid control you get a message popping up telling you to pay
for the software, if you can live with that then I suppose you could
use it for free. I have not purchased one of these so I have no idea
how much it costs.

Another possiblity is to import a form with a Flex Grid control on it
into your project from my demo database and then modify the form and
code to suit your requirements. However, as I mentioned in the
documentation, this may corrupt your database file so make sure you
make a back up copy before attempting this. Other users have said that
this mehod works OK with no problems so it may work for you.

Hope that helps.

Peter Hibbs.

On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 14:56:11 +1000, Costa Zu <get_cool(a)hotmail.com>
wrote:

>Hi Peter, again,
>
>I'm implementing my sub-form with Attachments as a continuous form but
>an interesting thing has occurred when I inserted the form into my
>main form:- only the current record is displaying in the sub-form. I
>think this might have something to do with linking the master fields
>and child fields.
>
>Basically, the sub-form works as a vertical scroll bar showing all the
>different records in a continuous form. The main form displays a
>detailed record of the current record selected in the sub-form.
>However, the sub-form is now also only displaying the current record
>in the continuous form ... ie: 1 picture.
>
>Any advice?
>
>I think this may be because I haven't set up my Access 2007 Options
>properly yet. In that regard, I hope the next version of Office at
>least GIVES YOU THE OPTION of using traditional menus or the ribbon.
>
>Regards
>
>Costa.
>
>On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 14:47:00 +0100, Peter Hibbs
><peter.hibbs(a)btinternet.com.NO_SPAM> wrote:
>
>>Costa
>>
>>Don't panic, it is possible.
>>
>>What you need to do is have a field for each image in your table. Make
>>the field types OLE Object and insert then into your Continuous form.
>>Then you can just copy and paste your images into the relevant fields
>>when the form is displayed. I think the only problem with this method
>>is that the images are stored within the database file so if you have
>>a large number of large images (in KB that is) the file could be quite
>>large. Northwind database uses this method to show Employee images on
>>a form (although not a Continuous form in this case).
>>
>>I suggest you try that method first. If you have a large number of
>>images you can also do the insert image part using some VBA code but
>>that is a bit more complicated.
>>
>>HTH
>>
>>Peter Hibbs.
>>
>>
>>On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 13:31:04 +1000, Costa Zu <get_cool(a)hotmail.com>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>Hello,
>>>
>>>This is still driving me crazy.
>>>
>>>I am trying to create a continuous subform down the right hand side of
>>>my main form. The subform simply contains a list of thumbnails that I
>>>want to display in a continuous form. I used to have a tall skinny
>>>subform that just scrolled up and down, but now my list is too long
>>>for the maximum height.
>>>
>>>When I created the continuous subform the image displayed in each
>>>record defaulted to that of the current record. Advice that I've
>>>received here does not seem to have helped. This is the advice that I
>>>have received to date:
>>>
>>>1.
>>>Advice: Upgrade to 2007 because that will do what I want to do.
>>>Action: I upgraded. Bad advice. Images are treated the same as in
>>>2003. Ie: that doesn't work.
>>>
>>>2.
>>>Advice: Use MSFLXGRD.OCX and look at
>>>http://www.lebans.com/conditionalformatting.htm
>>>Action: Great idea! I can see the demo. I want to do something
>>>similar to the thing with the flags. However, when I try to add the
>>>control to my form I get the following message:
>>>
>>>"You dont have the licence required to use this ActiveX control"
>>>
>>>Now what do I do?
>>>
>>>Geez! My problem is simple ... give me an Image control that works
>>>the same way as a text box in a continuous form. i.e: displays the
>>>image associated with the right record. Is there no one else in the
>>>world who wants to do this? I am at a total loss and extremely
>>>disappointed with MS and MS Access.
>>>
>>>Can anyone help me out?
>>>
>>>Thanks
>>>
>>>Costa
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