Fading Images Demonstrations.

[ChrisO]

Fading Images Demonstrations.

There are three separate demonstrations in this suite and each should comply with the following:

Access 2003. (They may or may not work in Access 2007 or above.)
Windows XP. (They may not work in Windows 7 or above.)
Screen resolution 1024 x 768 or above.
Tested with English, French and German regional settings.

The attempt here is to fade images relative to another Form's Control.
The difficult part is to display them relative to a Control irrespective of screen menu bars.
To that end, a procedure SizeFormToControl() is included.
It uses screen API calls because the internal DoCmd.MoveSize doesn't quite hack it.

The images are background images on two different popup Forms.
The image Forms need to be popup in order to fade them; the entire Form is faded not just the image.
You may adjust the fade rate if required.

Search Key Words…
Fade Images MoveSize


Chris.

 

[ChrisO]

Demonstration 1

Demonstration 1;
Images referenced by a List Box...

This demo has a history so please read all the links on the splash screen.

In this demo a 'light box' effect is also included.

The images included are by UA editor John Grove. They are not for general usage, so please contact John Grove via the link provided.

Please respect the property of all of the contributors involved.

Please download all files in the attachment to the same directory.

Chris

 

[ChrisO]

Demonstration 2

Demonstration 2;
Images referenced by Thumbnails...

This demo tries to represent Thumbnails on a continuous Form.
Due to the difficulty of displaying images on a continuous Form, in Access 2003, it doesn't even try.
The method is to display a Form containing 6 (in this case) subforms. Each subform contains a separate instance of another Form which displays the image assigned to it.

In this demo a 'light box' effect is also included.

A note about the two buttons 'Reset' and 'Select Directory'…
'Reset' allows you to select a starting directory from which to browse, it does not make a selection.
'Select Directory' allows you to browse from that starting directory and select a directory. Only JPG and BMP files will be loaded into a temporary table.

This demo has a history so please read all the links on the splash screen.
The images included are by UA editor John Grove. They are not for general usage, so please contact John Grove via the link provided.
Please respect the property of all of the contributors involved.

Please download all files in the attachment to the same directory.

Chris.

 

[ChrisO]

Demonstration 3

Demonstration 3;
Images referenced by a Tree View...

This demo is different to the other two in that it is only a Front End and contains no data.

Because there is no Back End in the attachment it, the FE, will prompt for the creation of a BE at first start up after download.

On first download you will be asked to 'Create a new BE', 'Open an Existing BE' or 'Cancel', select 'Create a new BE'. Enter a name for the BE, for example, 'XYZ'; the name will be appended with '_BE.MDB'.

Now select 'Add New Category' and enter the name of a new category. When the new category appears, select it.
Now select 'Add New Item' and enter the name of the new item for that category. Then select the new item just created.
At this point you should have the subform details visible.
Select 'Select Image' and browse for an image path to inset into the current record.

Chris.