You can read many (older) image formats into a graphic field.
But Paradox will render into a BMP format on the form.
It can handle many formats, but some lose depth.

Reads a graphic from a file.

A Paradox table has a graphic type, again converts to BMP, but acts like
any other field.

I would not store MANY graphic files in a table, they are like Blob fields,
unwieldy. Better to store them in a folder and read them in on the fly.

The external viewer is most reliable, I use same thinking for PDFs.


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Syntax

readFromFile ( const fileName String ) Logical

Description

readFromFile reads a graphic from a disk file specified in fileName. readFromFile
returns True if the fileName name exists and contains a graphic format that
can be imported; otherwise, it returns False. Paradox can import the following
graphic formats:

·	Bitmap (.BMP)
·	OS/2 Bitmap (.BMP)
·	Joint Photographic Experts Group(JPG, .JPEG, .JPE)
·	Graphic Interchange Format (.GIF)
·	Paintbrush (.PCX)
·	Tagged Information File Format (.TIF)
·	WordPerfect Graphic 1.0, 2.0 (.WPG)
·	Corel Photo-Paint 6-10 (.CPT)
·	CorelDRAW 3-10 (.CDR)
·	Corel Metafile Exchange (.CMX)
·	Portable Network Graphics (.PNG)
·	Windows Metafile (.WMF)
·	Kodak Photo CD (.PCD)





wolf wahn <wowiwa@onlinehome.de> wrote:
>Thank you, Ivan,
>your short script is way better than what I have used before to call a 
>viewer-program (acdsee or irfanview) to have a full-scale view of large

>images, I'm glad to use it from now on.
>Dhtmledit on the other hand allows to integrate images in Paradox forms,

>images perfectly scaled to fit. As dhtmledit is even more obsolete as 
>Paradox (the latter is still being sold, after all), I wonder whether 
>there was any alternative to that - still working - OCX-control 
>Microsoft gave up in 2006 or so. How else can I show jpg-images in 
>Paradox forms? Are there any other solutions around?
>Wolf
>
>> i don't know, if this is a solution for your problem too:
>> 
>> e.g. with a script you can do it like this:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Uses Shell32
>> 
>> ShellExecute(hwnd CLONG, lpOperation CPTR, lpFile CPTR, lpParameters 
>> CPTR, lpDirectory CPTR, nShowCmd CLONG) CLONG [STDCALL "ShellExecuteA"]
>> 
>> endUses
>> 
>> 
>> method run(var eventInfo Event)
>> 
>>    var
>>     path String
>>    endVar
>> 
>>    path = "C:\\TEMP\\myPicture.jpg"
>> 
>>    if isFile(path)
>>    then
>>       ShellExecute(0, "open", path, "", "", 3)
>>    endIf
>> 
>> endMethod
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> you can use it to show different types of files - not only jpg (e.g. 
>> PDF, XLS, DOCX, MP4, ...)
>> 
>> Ivan
>> 
>> 
>> Probably somebody shoud write a kind of installation for the people, how

>> to communicate with pnews.thedbcommunity.com through Google / MS Edge

>> ... Not many people will use old SW like Windows Mail for a long time.
>> 
>> "wolf wahn" <wowiwa@onlinehome.de> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
>> news:6620f46c$1@pnews.thedbcommunity.com...
>>> Hi,
>>> before it is too late and this fine newsgroup dead and gone: I am 
>>> using dhtmledit to show jpg-images in Paradox (11/win 11). Is there 
>>> any other/better way to do this?
>>>
>>> Thanks to all who contributed here over the years,
>>> Wolf 
>> 
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