Add Logo to Forms and/or Reports…

You can allow Client’s to insert their own logo on the Switchboard or Main Menu (and, if you like Reports).  This is especially a nice touch as Clients will be able to personalize the file as their own.

The first thing you will need is a separate table the holds the Company Profile information, Figure 1.  (Note: I do not store the image in the database but do allow Users to navigate to the image storing only the path to the image.

Figure 1

Second, is a to place an Image Control on the form and/or reports and set *Picture to (NONE)* and *Size Mode to Zoom*, Figure 2.  (For the purpose of this example, my Image Control is named imgLogo.)

Figure 2

Third, add a Command Button to your form to *get the Image*.  Mine has a little camera on it and is named cmdAddImage.  Then place Call GetImage in the On_Click event…

Private Sub cmdAddImage_Click()
Call GetImage
End Sub

GetImage code from my modUtilities…

Public Sub GetImage()
    Dim fDialog    As Object
    Dim varFile As Variant
   
   ' Set up the File Dialog.
    Set fDialog = Application.FileDialog(3)
 
    With fDialog
 
      ' Allow user to make multiple selections in dialog box
      .AllowMultiSelect = False
 
      ' Set the title of the dialog box. '
      .Title = "Please select file to add..."
 
      ' Clear out the current filters, and add our own.
      .Filters.Clear
      .Filters.Add "Compressed Image Files", "*.jpg, *.gif, *.png"
      .Filters.Add "Uncompressed Image Files", "*.bmp, *.wmf"
      .Filters.Add "All Files", "*.*"
      .InitialFileName = "C:\"
     
      ' Show the dialog box. If the .Show method returns True, the
      ' user picked at least one file. If the .Show method returns
      ' False, the user clicked Cancel.
      If .Show = True Then
        varFile = .SelectedItems.Item(1)
        Forms![frmInputCompanyProfile]![txtImagePath] = Mid(varFile, InStrRev(varFile, "\") + 1)
      Else
        MsgBox "You clicked Cancel in the file dialog box."
      End If
   End With

End Sub

Fourth, add a Command Button to your form to *remove the Image*.  Mine has a little circle with a line thru it and is named cmdClearImage.  Then place the below in the On_Click event…

Private Sub cmdClearImage_Click()

On Error Resume Next 'Lazy mans error handling

    Me.txtImagePath = Null
    Me.imgImage.Picture = ""

End Sub

Fifth, add the below to the frmCompanyProfile’s On_Open event…

Private Sub Form_Current()

On Error Resume Next  'Lazy mans error handling

     If IsNull([txtImagePath]) Then Exit Sub
     Me.imgImage.Picture = Me.txtImagePath

End Sub

Sixth, add an Image Control, naming it imgLogo to all the Forms and/or Reports you want your Logo to be displayed on.

And finally, place the code below in the On_Open event of your Forms and/or Reports to get the logo to show, as shown in Figure 3…

    If IsNull(DLookup("[cpImagePath]", "tblCompanyProfile")) Then Exit Sub
    Me.imgLogo.Picture = DLookup("[cpImagePath]", "tblCompanyProfile")

Figure 3

P.S. Another example using a different format can be found at my website, Customize your Main Menu (Switchboard).

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