Re: Viewpoint Pro (NewEra) - GIF's only.

On Fri, 18 Nov 1994, Andrew S. Townley wrote: } In comp.databases.informix article } <3aflfp$ikk@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> you wrote: } > } } > Why does Viewpoint Pro only support GIF images, when all the other } NewEra } } > products are quite happy with BMP's, GIF's etc etc. } } > } } > Regards, Mark } > } } > } ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ } > Mark Lansley <mark@dsl.com> | "Whoa!....Maybe I'll just pass } > Druid Systems Ltd, UK | on my usual barking frenzy." } > +44 932 571212 (Vce) 571552 (Fax) | } > } ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ } } I'm looking at a table on importing picture files from the VPPro } Working with the Screen Designer, Version 2.0 manual, page 3-38, and } it says that Windows supports BMP, DIB, GIF, and WMF. I believe that } everything defaults to GIF, but you can convert from any of the above } formats to GIF on Windows. } } -- } Andrew S. Townley _ _ ___\\ } 4121 W. 83rd Street, Suite 265 | \\|_] | \\/SYSTEMS } Prairie Village, KS 66208 |_/| \\ | /\\International } atownley@tyrell.net (NeXTmail welcome) \\ } } Whoops, I've not been very clear. I meant graphical objects held on the database as BLOBS. Viewpoint Pro will support the import of BMP's and other file formats for use in the screen designer, but if I want to dynamically display BLOBS, I find the following limitation in the *Working with Forms and Reports* Version 2.0, page 2-28 : "Important: Viewpoint only supports picture BLOBS stored in GIF format." Which is a shame, although as Andrew points out I could convert everything to GIF format. It just struck me that the more common image format on Windows was BMP, and I would have preffered to work with that. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mark Lansley <mark@dsl.com> | "Whoa!....Maybe I'll just pass Druid Systems Ltd, UK | on my usual barking frenzy." +44 932 571212 (Vce) 571552 (Fax) | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~