Re: Pictures in FileMaker Pro
Re: Pictures in FileMaker Pro
- Subject: Re: Pictures in FileMaker Pro
- From: Ehsan Saffari <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 08:33:02 -0600
Hello
The way to do what you want to do is to convert the JPEG to PICT (Akua
etc.), read the PICT into a variable and set the container to the var,
then you can delete both JPEG & PICT. Or you can copy the JPEG to
clipboard (which converts is it to PICT) and paste into the container.
AFAIK it is not possible to directly "store" a JPEG in FMP via AS, you
can only set a refernce to it, as your code does.
"Store Compatiable Graphics" doc pref is for stored images, not image
refs.
hth
ehsan
On Thu, 1 Feb 2001 09:04:35 -0500 "Bourque, Jason" <email@hidden>
wrote:
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I am trying to put a jpeg image into a FileMaker Pro Database container
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field and keep it there. This isn't a problem but then when I delete the
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actual jpeg file FileMaker Pro gives me an error "Could not draw picture
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file: 000008.jpg" when it was just drawing fine before I deleted the file.
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I have the document preference "Store Compatible Graphics" checked.
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Is there a way to keep the jpeg in there all the time, I am pretty sure that
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jpeg is a compatible graphic?
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This is the AppleScript I am using which works fine to get the jpg in the
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database.
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tell application "FileMaker Pro"
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set jpgFilePath to (text 1 thru -5 of thisItem) & ".jpg"
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create new record at end of layout "Data Input" of database previewDatabase
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set newRecord2Ref to result
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set data cell "Preview Pict" of newRecord2Ref to (file jpgFilePath)
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end tell
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Jason Bourque
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MFS Investment Management