This is a question about whether something is possible, not a question about how to do it.
(Although if the answer is yes, I'll probably get to the "how" question soon enough.)
If I have a whole bunch of records in a table which describe a collection of photographs, and one of the fields in the table is "path to digital picture", is there a way that I will be able to display the set of digital pictures retrieved by a query?
I know I can set up a form which will display the digital pictures individually, one record at a time (I've done that part already.)
What I want is to be able to glance over all of the images retrieved by a query, on as few screens as possible. No user wants to read text descriptions of photos at this point in a search--everyone wants to be able to eyeball the actual pictures and see whether they look right. Paging through individual records, or reading tables of text descriptions, would be an inefficient and tedious way to work with pictures.
This point is a project killler, so if I can't come up with a solution to it, I'm really stuck. It's ok if the answer to this is that there is another piece of software I can tack on over Access as a front end--that's a definite possibility here, if I knew what software to look for.
Any suggestions will be appreciated.
Many thanks,
Sialia
(Although if the answer is yes, I'll probably get to the "how" question soon enough.)
If I have a whole bunch of records in a table which describe a collection of photographs, and one of the fields in the table is "path to digital picture", is there a way that I will be able to display the set of digital pictures retrieved by a query?
I know I can set up a form which will display the digital pictures individually, one record at a time (I've done that part already.)
What I want is to be able to glance over all of the images retrieved by a query, on as few screens as possible. No user wants to read text descriptions of photos at this point in a search--everyone wants to be able to eyeball the actual pictures and see whether they look right. Paging through individual records, or reading tables of text descriptions, would be an inefficient and tedious way to work with pictures.
This point is a project killler, so if I can't come up with a solution to it, I'm really stuck. It's ok if the answer to this is that there is another piece of software I can tack on over Access as a front end--that's a definite possibility here, if I knew what software to look for.
Any suggestions will be appreciated.
Many thanks,
Sialia
