Hi all,

I have a shared database ( FM 5.5 ) in wich I need to enable users to paste or draw swketches/drawings directly in a Container field.

The db is hosted on Mac OS X 10.2.2 and we have 6 clients ( 1 Windows XP

, 1 Windows 2000, 1 Mac OS X 10.2.2, 3 Windows 98 )

I have found an easy way of doing this, the clients could draw a sketch in Paint, Photoshop or any other App and then copy/paste the sketch in the FMP database.

Pasting a picture in a container field works just fine when done in Mac OS X and all the windows machines can see the pictures. The problem is when the picture is pasted in the database using windows and then viewed by Mac OS X. In most cases, the container field shows a generic windows icon along with the "Windows OLE object" text.

Is there a way of disabling OLE support in FileMaker for Windows?

Does OLE library/utilities exists for Mac OS?

In the document preferences, enable the option for 'store compatible graphics'. That should do it?!

Thanks EFmorph ,

It worked just fine, the pictures I have edited after setting up the "store compatible graphics" pref have ben converted to graphics instead of OLE objects.

It looks like I have another problem related to container fields. The graphics stored in the container fields gives me a preview in Windows but not in Mac OS X. If I copy the field and paste it into Photoshop, the picture shows up in Photoshop. This means that the picture is in the field but simply doesn't show up in Filemaker.

Mmmmm, any ideas ?