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LP Member Offline Posts: 19 Location: Arlington, VT Joined: Jan 20^th, 2011	Q&A Windows translation of picture field? Feb 22^nd, 2011 at 2:37pm	Print Post
	I've translated a Q&A Windows database that contained a picture field for each record. Everything is fine except the picture elements don't contain any pictures. Am I missing something or is this a lost cause?


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BOBSCOTT Senior Member Members Offline That Darn Computer #$X# {curse words} Posts: 1195 Joined: Nov 22^nd, 2002	Re: Q&A Windows translation of picture field? Reply #1 - Feb 22^nd, 2011 at 3:09pm	Print Post
	This is Sesame there is no such thing as lost causes! Until a real expert pipes in maybe check that you have the image path set correctly? Are you familar with where to set it?

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Hammer YaBB Administrator Lanticans Offline Fire bad. Tree pretty. Posts: 3436 Location: Ohio Joined: Nov 22^nd, 2002	Re: Q&A Windows translation of picture field? Reply #2 - Feb 22^nd, 2011 at 3:34pm	Print Post
	The image data is in the Q&A Windows database in a way that we can't translate automatically. It's been awhile, but I seem to remember hearing about a utility that could dump the images out if you run it through Q&A for DOS...maybe? I'm checking with some other people to see if I just dreamed this. At any rate, even if you can get the images out and into image files, you'll still have to hook each image back up to the record it goes with. Do you have these images separately, or do they only exist in the QAWin database?

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Hammer YaBB Administrator Lanticans Offline Fire bad. Tree pretty. Posts: 3436 Location: Ohio Joined: Nov 22^nd, 2002	Re: Q&A Windows translation of picture field? Reply #3 - Feb 22^nd, 2011 at 4:24pm	Print Post
	Nope, I dreamed it. The consensus is that I'm thinking of that External Image Viewer thing in QA5 DOS that only sort of worked. I also talked to John Dow, who is the go-to guy for the internals of Q&A for Windows, but he doesn't have any utilities for this. The internal image format is...non-standard.

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LP Member Offline Posts: 19 Location: Arlington, VT Joined: Jan 20^th, 2011	Re: Q&A Windows translation of picture field? Reply #4 - Feb 22^nd, 2011 at 5:05pm	Print Post
	Thanks Hammer for your quick and thorough response. Not a biggie, I just needed to know so that I could move forward.


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Rick_R Full Member Offline Posts: 243 Joined: Jan 29^th, 2010	Re: Q&A Windows translation of picture field? Reply #5 - Feb 22^nd, 2011 at 10:55pm	Print Post
	If you can access the images in QA Windows, this might be a "half-fast" solution if nothing else works--it's a great way to save "unsave-able" images such as Bing bird-eye view: Display the image in windows, then use PrtScrn. That copies the image to the clipboard. From there it can be pasted into an image editor such as Paint Shop Pro or The GIMP. Generally you can increase the resolution without totally trashing the image. (Of course, it's not a realistic solution if you are dealing with thousands of images, unless you hire a temp, perhaps.)


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