Attachment Problem

[DDP]

Hi,

I am building a database for customer orders and on the form along with what the customer bought I have an empty image box that you double click which opens an attachment dialog where you click on add and you then find the picture you want and click ok to add it to the form and it worked fine initially but now when you double click the image box the attachment dialog appears but the all the buttons except cancel are greyed out.

Can anyone help

[Welshgasman]

Firstly, it is not recommended to store attachments in the DB, it bloats the DB quickly.
No idea to be honest, as I never use them for the above reason.

Upload your DB so someone can try it out.

[ranman256]

Instead of storing the picture in the db, (like Welshgasman said), store the path of the image, then open it using the function below.
OpenNativeApp will open any file in its native application : .docx will open in Word, .jpg will open in the default paint app.

usage using a listbox holding the path of the images

OpenNativeApp lstBox

Option Compare Database
Option Explicit


#If Win64 Then
  'Declare PtrSafe Sub...
    Declare PtrSafe Function ShellExecute Lib "shell32.dll" Alias "ShellExecuteA" (ByVal hWnd As Long, ByVal lpszOp As String, ByVal lpszFile As String, ByVal lpszParams As String, ByVal lpszDir As String, ByVal FsShowCmd As Long) As Long
    Declare PtrSafe Function GetDesktopWindow Lib "user32" () As Long
#Else
   Private Declare Function ShellExecute Lib "shell32.dll" Alias "ShellExecuteA" (ByVal hWnd As Long, ByVal lpszOp As String, ByVal lpszFile As String, ByVal lpszParams As String, ByVal lpszDir As String, ByVal FsShowCmd As Long) As Long
   Private Declare Function GetDesktopWindow Lib "user32" () As Long
#End If


Const SW_SHOWNORMAL = 1
Const SE_ERR_FNF = 2&
Const SE_ERR_PNF = 3&
Const SE_ERR_ACCESSDENIED = 5&
Const SE_ERR_OOM = 8&
Const SE_ERR_DLLNOTFOUND = 32&
Const SE_ERR_SHARE = 26&
Const SE_ERR_ASSOCINCOMPLETE = 27&
Const SE_ERR_DDETIMEOUT = 28&
Const SE_ERR_DDEFAIL = 29&
Const SE_ERR_DDEBUSY = 30&
Const SE_ERR_NOASSOC = 31&
Const ERROR_BAD_FORMAT = 11&


Public Sub OpenNativeApp(ByVal psDocName As String)
Dim r As Long, Msg As String


r = StartDoc(psDocName)
If r <= 32 Then
    'There was an error
    Select Case r
        Case SE_ERR_FNF
            Msg = "File not found"
        Case SE_ERR_PNF
            Msg = "Path not found"
        Case SE_ERR_ACCESSDENIED
            Msg = "Access denied"
        Case SE_ERR_OOM
            Msg = "Out of memory"
        Case SE_ERR_DLLNOTFOUND
            Msg = "DLL not found"
        Case SE_ERR_SHARE
            Msg = "A sharing violation occurred"
        Case SE_ERR_ASSOCINCOMPLETE
            Msg = "Incomplete or invalid file association"
        Case SE_ERR_DDETIMEOUT
            Msg = "DDE Time out"
        Case SE_ERR_DDEFAIL
            Msg = "DDE transaction failed"
        Case SE_ERR_DDEBUSY
            Msg = "DDE busy"
        Case SE_ERR_NOASSOC
            Msg = "No association for file extension"
        Case ERROR_BAD_FORMAT
            Msg = "Invalid EXE file or error in EXE image"
        Case Else
            Msg = "Unknown error"
    End Select
'    MsgBox msg
End If
End Sub


Private Function StartDoc(psDocName As String) As Long
Dim Scr_hDC As Long


Scr_hDC = GetDesktopWindow()
StartDoc = ShellExecute(Scr_hDC, "Open", psDocName, "", "C:\", SW_SHOWNORMAL)
End Function

[jojowhite]

Hi,

I am building a database for customer orders and on the form along with what the customer bought I have an empty image box that you double click which opens an attachment dialog where you click on add and you then find the picture you want and click ok to add it to the form and it worked fine initially but now when you double click the image box the attachment dialog appears but the all the buttons except cancel are greyed out.

Can anyone help

did you noticed a Yellow Warning band on your Access when you open the db.
You must Enable all macros to your db.
maybe the location of your db is not yet in Trusted Location.

[DDP]

did you noticed a Yellow Warning band on your Access when you open the db.
You must Enable all macros to your db.
maybe the location of your db is not yet in Trusted Location.

I found the problem.
For some reason the allow edits in the forms property sheet was set to no, once i set it to yes it worked.

Thanks for all your help and i will try Ranman256 fix