Re: image storing

Well, it doesn't load the link in itself, it launches the appropriate
application to view it.

Adam Lang
Systems Engineer
Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company
----- Original Message -----
From: <bmccoy@chapelperilous.net>
To: "Adam Lang" <aalang@rutgersinsurance.com>
Cc: "PGSQL General" <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Sent: Friday, October 06, 2000 2:50 PM
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] image storing


> On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Adam Lang wrote:
>
> > Yeah, that is what I was thinking... except I would like to keep the
> > existing Access front end... And the front end displays the pathnames as
a
> > "hyperlink" data type.  I figure I'll have to change that to a string...
> > just not sure how to keep it so they can just "click" on it and display
the
> > file.
>
> Hmmm...  That's going to be the trick, I think.  Yeah, I just stored the
> pathnames as strings.  In fact, we had people doing DP to this database
> with Access, now that I think about it, but they didn't use Access to view
> the images, just manipulate the data.  Hyperlink data type.... sheesh!
> I'm not sure the tool you use to do data processing should also double up
> as a web browser!  That'd be like using a word processor to do graphic
> design...
>
> Brett W. McCoy
>
http://www.chapelperilous.net
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