>I have a table that contains a field of type: General .
>When I want to browse a table and to view an image of this field ,
>if the file type is BMP I see picture in its actual size, but if the
>file type is JPG I see only the icon, when double-clicking on it I see the actual picture.
After doing some preliminary testing, I decided *not* to use general fields for my images. Rather, I keep the images as separate JPG-files.
The difference is size. Whereas a single JPG-file used ca. 50 KB, after adding it to the sample table as a general field, the filesize grew by over 1 MB. The ratio is at least 1:20.
I recommend, then, to keep the JPG-files as such, and to have only a filename in a field.
Regards, Hilmar.
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