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Append general bmp different on different OS's
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28/11/2002 06:42:55
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
 
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Pictures and Image processing
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00727711
Message ID:
00727915
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8
Better avoid using general fields. They use too much space. I recommend you save your images in JPG files, and keep the filename in a small character or memo field. You will save space by a factor of ca. 20.

Hilmar.

>I do the following in VFP 7, SP 1:
>
>CREATE CURSOR tQuery (PICTURE G)
>APPEND BLANK
>APPEND GENERAL PICTURE FROM GETFILE("bmp")
>
>If I edit or print preview the general field in a report in WIN 2000 I get a 640x480 image, as expected.
>
>On WIN NT SP 6 I if I edit or print preview the general field I get a tiny little thumbnail image about 32x32 pixels. The actual image is 640 x480.
>
>I used CLEAR RESOURCES, CLEAR RESOURCES (filename), and every technique I can think of.
>
>I have a user who called in on tech support with this same problem on a runtime .exe, and I can duplicate it in developer mode too. They have networked version, and two workstations print preview the same image at vastly different sizes (32x32 or so, versus 640 x 480 for same picture)
>
>Does anyone know a workaround, or even the cause of this?
>
>TIA!
>Don Meuse
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
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