If you use ODBC or OLEDB to connect to the data, Crystal will see the General field as a Blob field and will print the picture from the table.
>I'm desperately looking for a solution to my problem. In fact cannot believe that VFP isn't able to saticefy my need, but now i'm really desperate.
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>I'm developing an application to be destributed between several customers. Each of them, apparantly, has it's own logo. i want to put an interface to get the logo file name from user, and save their logo in a table. Well, no problem till now: we have APPEND GENERAL command. But the problem raised when i was going to use this general field in a report: the general field contained a small low-resolution icon from the graphic file and a blabla.bmp name below it!!!!
>So i couldn't use it as a logo on the heder of each report, and still wondering what to do.
>I'm generating my reports with Crystal Reports.
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>Briefly, my problem is this:
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>How should I save a picture in a VFP table if I want to use it in a report, generated by Crystal Reports?
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>I'll really be thankful to whome helps me and released me from this headache.
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>Thanks in advance
>Hooman
Craig Berntson
MCSD, Microsoft .Net MVP, Grape City Community Influencer