Opening / viewing jpeg files

[Jon22]

I have a couple of closely related questions. My first and most important
question is, when I set the Hyperlink Address propety of a control to a path
of a jpeg file on our network, on clicking the control, it opens the jpeg in
Internet Explorer instead of Windows Picture and Fax Viewer (WPFV) which is
the program that opens them normally and the one I would prefer. How do I get
Access to open them with WPFV?

My other question relates to image controls. I have in a form an Image
control which I have set to show an image based on the selection of a file
name within a List control - as you click through the different file names in
the list, the image control changes the picture to the corresponding jpeg
file - a thumbnail of sorts. These jpeg files stored in a directory on our
network are pretty much all about 2500x1800 pixels each. The Image control is
only about 6cm x 4cm and is set to Zoom so that the whole image is shown
inside the control. Because of the change in size, the image quality is
drastically reduced. My question is, can the image be resampled somehow to
suit the much reduces size so that the image quality of my little thumbnail
is improved?

 

[Arvin Meyer [MVP]]

I have a couple of closely related questions. My first and most important
question is, when I set the Hyperlink Address propety of a control to a
path
of a jpeg file on our network, on clicking the control, it opens the jpeg
in
Internet Explorer instead of Windows Picture and Fax Viewer (WPFV) which
is
the program that opens them normally and the one I would prefer. How do I
get
Access to open them with WPFV?

In Windows Explorer filetypes, you need to set that as the default program
to open those files.

My other question relates to image controls. I have in a form an Image
control which I have set to show an image based on the selection of a file
name within a List control - as you click through the different file names
in
the list, the image control changes the picture to the corresponding jpeg
file - a thumbnail of sorts. These jpeg files stored in a directory on our
network are pretty much all about 2500x1800 pixels each. The Image control
is
only about 6cm x 4cm and is set to Zoom so that the whole image is shown
inside the control. Because of the change in size, the image quality is
drastically reduced. My question is, can the image be resampled somehow to
suit the much reduces size so that the image quality of my little
thumbnail
is improved?

Have a look at Irfanview to either create a new set of thumbnails or resize
the originals.

http://www.irfanview.com/