Adding pictures to a DataWindow object
You can place pictures, such as your company logo, in a
DataWindow object to enhance its appearance. If you place a picture in
the header, summary, or footer band of the DataWindow object, the
picture displays each time the content of that band displays. If you
place the picture in the detail band of the DataWindow object, it
displays in each row.
To place a picture in a DataWindow object
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Select Insert>Control>Picture from the menu
bar. -
Click where you want the picture to display.
The Select Picture dialog box displays.
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Use the Browse button to find the file or enter a file name
in the File Name box. Then click Open.The picture must be a bitmap (BMP), runlength-encoded (RLE),
Windows metafile (WMF), Graphics Interchange Format (GIF), or
Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) file. -
Display the pop-up menu and select Original Size to display
the image in its original size.You can use the mouse to change the size of the image in the
DataWindow painter. -
Select the Invert Image check box on the Appearance page in
the Properties view to display the picture with its colors
inverted.
Tips for using pictures
To display a different picture for each row of data, retrieve a
column containing picture file names from the database. For more
information, see Specifying additional
properties for character columns.
To compute a picture name at runtime, use the Bitmap function in
the expression defining a computed field. If you change the image in
the Picture control in a DataWindow object, you need to reset the
original size property. The property automatically reverts to the
default setting when you change the image.
To use a picture to indicate that a row has focus at runtime,
use the SetRowFocusIndicator function.