Datagrid - reference an image in a column that's stored in a database

Shawn Blc shawnlivecode at gmail.com
Wed May 22 21:49:01 EDT 2013


Thanks Pete, could you give me a short example or pass me on a link where I
can see a short example?


On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 8:37 PM, Peter Haworth <pete at lcsql.com> wrote:

> I think you could:
>
> - customize the ColPic column to contain an image (any image, even an empty
> one)
> - edit the FillInData handler of the ColPic column to use the link to
> binary read the image into a variable and set the text of your image to the
> variable.
>
> There could be problems if your images are of different dimensions.
>
> Pete
> lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>
>
>
> On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 5:29 PM, Shawn Blc <shawnlivecode at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I have a datagrid.  Using a MySQL database.  In one field of the database
> > I'm storing the image link
> > example:
> http://forums.runrev.com/styles/prosilver/imageset/site_logo.gif
> >
> > How do I go about showing that image in a column of my datagrid?  For
> > instance if I have a column called colPic how would I show the above
> > reference image?
> >
> > Been stumped on this for hours.
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