On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Adam Lang wrote:
> Yeah, that is what I was thinking... except I would like to keep the
> existing Access front end... And the front end displays the pathnames as a
> "hyperlink" data type. I figure I'll have to change that to a string...
> just not sure how to keep it so they can just "click" on it and display the
> file.
Hmmm... That's going to be the trick, I think. Yeah, I just stored the
pathnames as strings. In fact, we had people doing DP to this database
with Access, now that I think about it, but they didn't use Access to view
the images, just manipulate the data. Hyperlink data type.... sheesh!
I'm not sure the tool you use to do data processing should also double up
as a web browser! That'd be like using a word processor to do graphic
design...
Brett W. McCoy
http://www.chapelperilous.net
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