OLE/Packager (A97 + W2k + O2K)

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Is there any way to turn off the “Packager” in W2000? I am trying to modify some bitmaps in an OLE field in a table, but whenever I insert the bitmap the Packager promptly wraps it up and show an icon instead of the picture. I know that embedding pictures is not the best way to go, but this is an inherited DB, which really needs a complete rewrite, and I don

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What do you mean, “as pictures”? You’re never going to see pictures in your table. What format object are you trying to insert? Jpegs come in as packages.

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The pictures are standard .bmp bitmap files.

Currently the pictures are listed in the OLE field of the table as

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OK I have found a workround in the Knowledge Base The article cites JPEG’s but works the same for .BMP

This lets you insert pictures but is a bit longwinded, looks like another ms “improvemnt” gone wrong.

Peter

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