Method of Viewing Multiple Images

[chris-uk-lad]

Hi all,

I have a CD of images which i want to view in a tool. I am already running a script that takes the paths of all these images into a database but is there a way to have an area of the form which displays ALL the images in a directory (icons/thumbnails, a bit like a browser), allowing the user to click on one of these images and it displays? I can do this with filepaths in a subform but would prefer a picture representation.

The images are .tifs.

Thanks

 

[M_S_Jones]

Hi Chris,

In Access 2007 you can link the field that the file path is stored in to the control source of an image object and it will display that image. If you do this on a continuous form you will actually display the image for each record. I know it won't look exactly like a browser, but it would be better than displaying the file paths. I suppose you could then add code to the OnClick event of the image object to open a form with a full-sized version of the image in it (linking through the record's ID.) Do post back if you find a way to make it look more like a browser, i.e. displaying the images of different records horizontally as well as vertically, I'm looking to do something similar myself.

Matthew

 

[M_S_Jones]

Hi Chris,

I a new thread regarding the similar project that I am working on and I received a link to a website that had a VB program that does exactly what you describe, displays thumbnails all of the images in a directory, which can then be clicked upon and viewed in your default image viewer. Here's the thread I posted:

http://www.access-programmers.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?p=845637

There you will find the link that was sent to me, and the link that I subsequently posted to the source code of the program that I just described to you. I'm now working on trying to bring it into Access.

I hope that helps,

Matthew