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This is a VFP BUG ?
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24/08/2002 18:34:49
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
 
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00693016
Message ID:
00693351
Views:
16
>Hello to ALL,
>
>I have a products table that has a field named IMAGE of type GENERAL used to store the product's photo. This is made as follow:
>
>Select Products
>xxImage = GETPICT()
>APPEND GENERAL image FROM (xxImage)
>
>Everything ok, but when a enter MODIFY GENERAL Image
>only a little image of the photo is shown with the name of the file below it, like a "Link", that is, it isn't shown the complete photo.
>
>The photo looks well (complete) If a cut and paste the photo directly into the field but I want to do that programmaticaly.
>
>Any sugestion will help me a lot.
>
>Thanks
>
>Amilcar Pino

In addition to replies you got: you should not use general fields for images. It uses up too much space (in tests, 20x the amount of the JPG file!), and there is no easy way to get the data from the General field back to a JPG (or other format) file.

Hilmar.
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