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Dominique
Hi there.
I'm still struggling with displaying thumbnails of image files on a form. The images themselves are on the disk and I only have the filename in the Access table. I have tried making the form display in "continuous forms" view, but each row contains the same image (corresponding to the filename in the first row of the table.
Next, I tried hard-coding, say 10 image objects on the form and setting the Picture property of each object using VB code. This works, but it is gruesome coding - particularly doing the "scrolling" in code. My man objection is that this method is slow, as I need the image "Size Mode" property to be zoom and this means each image is shrunk down (or zoomed up) at run-time.
It occurs to me that there is this mysterious Windows 2000 and Windows XP system file called Thumbs.db that I believe Windows Explorer uses to display it's thumbnails. Is it possible for me to make use of this file to speed things up? Is there an API for the Thumbs.db file that might allow me to look inside using VB?
Any suggestions or advice gratefully received
Thanks
Dominique
I'm still struggling with displaying thumbnails of image files on a form. The images themselves are on the disk and I only have the filename in the Access table. I have tried making the form display in "continuous forms" view, but each row contains the same image (corresponding to the filename in the first row of the table.
Next, I tried hard-coding, say 10 image objects on the form and setting the Picture property of each object using VB code. This works, but it is gruesome coding - particularly doing the "scrolling" in code. My man objection is that this method is slow, as I need the image "Size Mode" property to be zoom and this means each image is shrunk down (or zoomed up) at run-time.
It occurs to me that there is this mysterious Windows 2000 and Windows XP system file called Thumbs.db that I believe Windows Explorer uses to display it's thumbnails. Is it possible for me to make use of this file to speed things up? Is there an API for the Thumbs.db file that might allow me to look inside using VB?
Any suggestions or advice gratefully received
Thanks
Dominique