BMP issue

[NigelShaw]

Hi Guys,

just a quickie. When i look at the attached image in photoshop as a bmp, its perfect. When i add it to an Access form, it has a grid on it. Is this usual or unusual for a bmp? i have added it by an image control.



cheers

Nidge

 

[NigelShaw]

No need to panic and rush to my assistance any more lol

it seems that unless the bmp is set up on a form at the exact same size that it should be, these lines appear. At first glance they look like they are the grid lines from a form but in reality it is the compression of the image. the smaller it is, the worse it is. Get it the right size, and its perfect


Nidge

 

[Simon_MT]

If you look closely there is a faint grid on the image, probably exaggerated by being a bmp which maps ever single pixel.

Simon

 

[gemma-the-husky]

is it a copyrighted image? maybe the grid is there to stop people using copyrighted images, and a "paid-for" image would remove the watermark.

 

[NigelShaw]

is it a copyrighted image? maybe the grid is there to stop people using copyrighted images, and a "paid-for" image would remove the watermark.

Hi Dave

I fixed the problem. It was because I had placed the bmp at the exact correct proportion. As soon as I put it at the correct size, the grid disappeared. Initially, it looked just like the grid on a form at design view. The image itself is a general windows image that comes with the os so it's not copyrighted.

Anyway, all fixed. In case you wondered, the reason for bmp over jpg is because I have made a small app that takes a rectangle on a form ( or the forn inside child window itself )and screen prints everything inside it but I can only output the image as a bmp. I did this because you cannot print a flexgrid from a form in the display that you want so my little tool fixed my problem. I was worried at first because it looked like I may have included the grid but it turned out it wasn't placed right

Cheers