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Now with the avaiable of the image field(memo binary or blob) and its ability to directly bind it with Image control is there a way to use this field directly in the report through GDI+ ? Instead of converting it to a image file and then use it as source for the Ole/picture control in report ?
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Yes. Did you read the release notes ? This is covered.

This is supported whether REPORTB is 80 or 90, although there are a few limitations regarding clip (if I remember correctly) in old-style/REPORTB 80.

It is also supported by the shipping FFC classes, but I think that some of the required code to handle it thoroughly may not be in the copy of _REPORTLISTENER.VCX and REPORTOUTPUT.APP that you have, as yet. The point here is that the image have to be dynamically copied to disk at runtime if you expect to use them in HTML etc.

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Also can the GDI+ in Vfp be different than the file on disk that shipps with OS(i believe there is one with OS) If different is there a way to upgrade only the gdi+ that shipps with VFP9 to the latest one that might be released in the future ? and distrubute it also without ofcouse overwriting the OS gdi+
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This shouldn't be a problem.

You do need to watch how you do it if you are using GDI+ calls in your code *within* VFP. You need to use the correct syntax to share the same GDIPLUS.DLL (not just the same version, the same file) that the product is using internally if you're sharing the handle the product uses (which you can do in reporting). This is in the release notes as well, but JIC: just use IN GDIPLUS.DLL without a path.

HTH,


>L<