>I'm exploring displaying pictures on a form from a field in a database. I was hoping for speed purposes I wouldn't have to take the picture from the memo field save it to disk and then update the picture field on the control to point to the file.
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>Can you point the picture field directly to the memo field? Are there any tricks? Any difference between doing this with FoxPro native tables vs. SQL server views?
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>Thanks for any advice you can give. (I've already got this working with external files, but I was hoping for a more efficient approach if possible.)
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>Thanks!!
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>Bob
Yes, use PictureVal property of the image control to assign memo directly (VFP9)
You may look into this thread
How Do I store image data in PictureVal Thread #
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