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    How to change absolute IFR to relative?

    Designing a new table for a database that is installed on different logical drives on different systems under different Windows versions. This works on the main system. E:\A5V8\Archives\2011 badges\Hiker.bmp. How can I adjust it for other computers?

    Th following works on a different table, but there is no formula (hopefully) for the IFR in the new table. OTOH the new table is small and only I will be entering data - probably.

    ImageFilename = a5_eval_expression("=a5.get_path() + chr(92) + \"Photos\" + chr(92) + trim(Imgname)+\".jpg\"",local_variables())

    #2
    Re: How to change absolute IFR to relative?

    I'm not sure what the question is. Are you looking for image_filename_encode()?
    There can be only one.

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      #3
      Re: How to change absolute IFR to relative?

      Not the first time I am bitten by anticipating disasters. There is no problem after all!

      I wrote the table with E:\ references and copied to different system - where it just plain worked. The IFR properties on one system reads E:\A5V8\Archives\2011 badges\Hiker.bmp, but on the other it reads D:\A5V8\Archives\2011 badges\Hiker.bmp.

      Who woulda thunk it?

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        #4
        Re: How to change absolute IFR to relative?

        Sandy, presumably you're talking about Image Reference Fields, right ?

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          #5
          Re: How to change absolute IFR to relative?

          Oh dear. What an embarrassing place for a typo! Yes, indeed, that should have been IRF.

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            #6
            Re: How to change absolute IFR to relative?

            Hi, Sandy,

            When I first saw your subject line I thought you were talking about Instrument Flight Rules. Couldn't resist teasing you a bit. Sorry 'bout that. -- tom

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              #7
              Re: How to change absolute IFR to relative?

              Tom, you are a bad man. :-)
              Tim Kiebert
              Eagle Creek Citrus
              A complex system that does not work is invariably found to have evolved from a simpler system that worked just fine.

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                #8
                Re: How to change absolute IFR to relative?

                I would have abbreviated it as IFR as well. In the docs for field types they are

                Image File Reference
                There can be only one.

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                  #9
                  Re: How to change absolute IFR to relative?

                  Goes to show that using an acronym injects a tad bit of ambiguity. Some of us (me especially) are more easily confused than others.

                  Image File Reference
                  Image Reference Field

                  Both terms are used in the helps.

                  -- tom

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                    #10
                    Re: How to change absolute IFR to relative?

                    Since you guys were silly enough to yank my chain, here's another. I would like to be able to edit the BMP the form shows. That could happen from a command prompt of

                    "D:\Program Files\IrfanView\i_view32.exe" "E:\A5V8\Archives\2011 badges\camper.bmp"

                    where Alpha thinks the parameter is recg2011->PIC and PIC is defined as an Image File Reference. IOW is it possible to translate A5speak to DOSspeak on the fly

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                      #11
                      Re: How to change absolute IFR to relative?

                      If i_view32.exe is the registered program to open/edit bitmap files all you need is

                      sys_open("E:\A5V8\Archives\2011 badges\camper.bmp")

                      If not

                      sys_shell("D:\Program Files\IrfanView\i_view32.exe E:\A5V8\Archives\2011 badges\camper.bmp")

                      If you are asking about passing the pic field value to these

                      pic = "E:\A5V8\Archives\2011 badges\camper.bmp "
                      sys_open(alltrim(pic))
                      Last edited by Stan Mathews; 05-09-2012, 03:12 PM.
                      There can be only one.

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                        #12
                        Re: How to change absolute IFR to relative?

                        The impossible just takes a bit longer ;-)

                        sys_open(alltrim(pic)) should work if only it said sys_open(alltrim(filename in the PIC field of the table upon which this form is based where PIC is an Image Reference Field)). The relative path is a5.get_path() + chr(92) + "2011" + chr(92) and the field is recg2011->PIC

                        E:\A5V8\Archives\2011 badges\camper.bmp does work from the OS commandline.

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                          #13
                          Re: How to change absolute IFR to relative?

                          Just close enough to be tantalizing.

                          fld = tbl.field_get("badgepix")
                          target = fld.value_get()

                          returns =filename_decode("alarm.bmp")

                          for the record with the Image Reference Field badgepix value of alarm.bmp. How do I get rid of the

                          =filename_decode()

                          part, or avoid it in the first place, so the script can say

                          a5.get_path() + chr(92)+"decoded name for this record"

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                            #14
                            Re: How to change absolute IFR to relative?

                            I seem to be within one character of a solution.

                            sys_open ("D:\Users\sbg\Desktop\xrcise\alarm.bmp") works to open a given file.

                            where=chr(40)+a5.get_path() + chr(92)+target2
                            ui_msg_box("Information 2", where)

                            shows (D:\Users\sbg\Desktop\xrcise\"alarm.bmp")
                            How do I get rid of one quotation mark and add another so we can use sys_open (where) ?

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                              #15
                              Re: How to change absolute IFR to relative?

                              Where are you getting target2?
                              There can be only one.

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