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General Field to Bitbmp
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Visual FoxPro
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>>Can I export content of a General Field as a BMP File.
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>>Kervin
>The general field stores OLE data. If the OLE data is a bmp file than you can bring up the general field in a window with the modify general and then issue a copy command and the bmp file will be in the clipboard. You can export from there.
>
>If the OLE data is not bitmap, then you will need to do the above plus use a graphics converter at the end to convert to bmp.

There is one more trick for non-bmp file (e.g. some other image format). We can:
1. Move pointer on the record.
2. Issue COPY TO temp NEXT 1
3. Use resulting temp.fpt file as external file containing exactly what we looked for.
Edward Pikman
Independent Consultant
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