Image Map or ???

[Ascaphus]

Hello:

I need to update a graphic on my form as part of the record information. Specifically, I have a graphic of the human body, and need the user to be able to mark the area where it hurts-scribble or put an "X" there-whatever. This modified graphic then needs to be stored somewhere and associated with that particular record.

Has anybody done this? Any suggested starting places?

Thanks,

Matt

 

[JoeCruse]

Matt, this IS possible, but it may be pretty tedious to work out. I've seen examples (in here, I think) of a tooth chart for a dentist's application that worked similar to what you want.

I did something similar as well, for an industrial hygiene app. We needed to note air sampling locations within an industrial plant, so I made a form with some graphics on it. It was a decent representation of the plant site (even showed a river on the border, with a fish) and I had the graphic broken into appropriately sized sections for exact location detail to be stored. So if a safety person sampled at "location X2", they pulled the form up and clicked the spot on the map where they sampled. This saved that location in the underlying data form and table. Specifically, there was a sampling form. When they got to the data entry for exact location, they moved the focus to that text box, and some code on it opened a popup form with the site map. The user clicked the location. The clicked graphic sent that location back to the sampling form and then closed the popup form so that the user could continue to work on the record in the sampling form.

I did this by putting code behind the OnClick method of each individual graphic. As I said, it was tedious, but it works like a charm. I can see where it could get EXTREMELY tedious to make this work for your app, depending on how specific with the areas of the body you want to get. But it can be done.