ScreenCaputring Utility in Ms Access

[DevAccess]

Hi All

I would like to have screen caputring utility in ms access where in user would click on button on ms access form to caputre any image, be it on web site or wherever on the screen, and then it should save in attachment data type field on the form.

Please assist me if this is possible.

Thanks
MAN

 

[Minty]

Windoze 10 has an inbuilt screen snipping tool that is excellent.
You could certainly invoke it from Access, it just an exe.

No idea how you would interface into it to force it to save the snip as an attachment into access though. Ther may be an Api for it.

Storing images / attachments into access is not a great idea in the long run - they cause the DB to grow in size very quickly. You would be better of simply storing them into a network folder and saving the path and filename. This can still be displayed and easily opened if required.