>>>>>Hi all!
>>>>>
>>>>>Ii wanna use JPG's instead of BMP's when saving pics with VFP 5.0. Is there any ActiveX to handle this?
>>>>>
>>>>>I think we'd need a control to display the JPG in a form, another control or class to select it (with a preview), and no more, since I guess we can save the pic in a General field? or not?
>>>>>
>>>>>TIA!!
>>>>
>>>>I am not a big expert in working with images in VFP, but I think there are two different parts in this question:
>>>>
>>>>How to display pictures in the forms?
>>>>and
>>>>How to store pictures of selected graphic format?
>>>>
>>>>For VFP 5.0 to display JPGs you can use WebBrowser ActiveX
>>>>or some third party tools, for example LeadTools which will provide more options here. (http://www.leadtools.com)
>>>>
>>>>You can store the pictures in General field, but it is more tricky to extract them from there if necessary. As I can see, many developers agree that it is better to store just picture names in the table and keep the pictures separately.
>>>>
>>>>Nick
>>>
>>>
>>>Send me an email and I will send you a FREE ocx that can display .JPG files, that I created in Visual basic Control Creation Edition (which is also free from MS) or maybe you can do it??
>>>
>>>Bernard
>>
>>Bernard, can you submit this OCX for the Files section?
>>
>>Nick
>
>
Have Uploaded the file as MultiFormatPix.Zip in the ActiveX section.

Bernard
>Watch the new files space. Will U/L a simple OCX soon.
>
>Bernard