New Twist On Graphics

[Ascaphus]

I have read, mostly understood, and abandoned most of the KB and WWF suggestions on using images in forms. I am _this_ close to having it my way, but I can't seem to get there.

The paper form I am emulating has a medical diagram of the human body, and the interviewer circles, crosses, or otherwise marks a particular part (say head or foot) that the interviewee indicates is giving him/her pain. In order to do this on a form, I need to load a blank medical image into a field, and let the interviewer edit the image as they would on paper, by leaving cirlcles or X's.

One of the Northwind examples uses embedded images in an OLE field, and when I double-click the image is brought up in 'Paint', and I can edit. Close to what I want. I can also copy the employee photo from one record to a new record, and still edit. Closer yet. But when I try to put in a new image, I'm back to the icon-with-file-name, or 'package', or varous other ways of not seeing a picture.

Has anybody had success with this yet?

Thanks

Matt

 

[DES]

Possible Solution

I've had a quick glance at some of the other posts you have done to make sure I fully understand what you are trying to do and I am not sure that that is the best approach.

I am attaching a sample of a method that may be more accomodating to what you are trying to do.

What it does is uses a graphic (in this sample I just grabbed one and it is not of course the one you will eventually use) on the form itself. The form's graphic is overlayed with a number of checkboxes for different areas of the picture. The user can check as many areas as they want. The checkboxes are bound to a table so as you cycle through the records of course the appropriate checks show up as needed.

Give it a look and let me know if it helps.

 

[JoeCruse]

Matt,

I'm attaching an example of what I talked about in your last post on this subject. It is a simple data form. As the user cycles through the textboxes, inputting data, they have to enter a location where the sampling took place. When the cursor or focus goes on that textbox, a popup form opens. It is a crude map of our facility's pollution control system, with its various compartments. The user clicks on the map at the compartment where the sampling took place, and then the user is returned back to the data form, with that location automatically entered for them. If they decide not to enter a location, they can click on the "river" graphic, and be returned to the sampling form. I just used a bunch of labels, and put code behind the "On-Click" property of each one. It can be done with graphics, labels, and many other things. You could get a really good graphic to match your paper form, and then use a decent graphics program to dissect the parts into individual graphics, to be placed into your form.

I like DES's idea also.

Good luck.