Re: Blobs, NewEra, and Crystal Reports

Bob Stwalley wrote: > > I'm wanting to show blobs (photos) from the > database in Crystal Reports > using the NewEra class libraries. > > Can anyone help? > > Thanks, > Paige Miller Hi there :> If you just want to show the picts you should first decide if Crystal is the right thing. You could also define a picture viewer as your NewEra blob field editor and thats it :> If you want to do it with Crystal reports: Integration of CR in NewEra is easy. There is a sample project coming with CR showing the stuff very nicely. Version 5 of Crystal Reports only works with Bitmap (.bmp) files in blop fields but does a good job then. Version 6 is said to be able to print .jpg data (and others?) correctly also. I have no CR 6 here to verify that... Regards Dirk -- -- Dirk Gunsthoevel phone: +49 (0)251 624947 -- Hoeftestr.49 fax: +49 (0)251 624177 -- 48167 Muenster mobile: +49 (0)171 8047582 -- Germany http://members.aol.com/Plabit/welcome.html