Print series of images on labels in VFP6

[GriffMG]

I may have come to an upgrade trigger for one of my venerable VFP6 applications.

I have a photo register in it, and yesterday a user demanded a report with a series of the photos - 9 or more to a page. I couldn't find a way do it in VFP6, but in VFP9 you can base an image in a label on an expression which is evaluated at run time.

Is there a way around this in VFP6? The photos are not stored directly in a table (i.e. no general fields) they are referenced by a number, from which you can derive a folder.

TIA

Martin

Regards

Griff
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[DSummZZZ]

Are you saying a picture control won't work?
You should be able to add a picture control using the field name as the source.


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[GriffMG]

Hi Dave

The picture is not held in a general field it's sitting outside the database - all that is in the table is a photo number, and from that the application can add a local prefix (to allow for different drive mappings) and a specific folder (based on the photo number (keeping no more than 1000 photos in a single folder).

In VFP6 all you have are field names and filenames, no expression to derive a filename from (which is available in VFP9) for image controls on reports/labels.

Regards

Griff
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