It is likely you are running into the little piece of header information the
TDataset appends to the BMP data which is making it corrupt as a JPG image.
Not sure just a guess. Try using a different sub-type in the user-defined
range and see if you get a different behavior.

Let us know.

Jason Wharton

----- Original Message -----
From: "H.I.S Developer" <developer@...>
To: <IBObjects@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 12:12 PM
Subject: [IBO] BLOB Related Problem


> Hello All,
>
> I use a table which stores images in a BLOB field.(size 80, subtype
binary)
> I am able to store BMP,JPG images into it.
> But when I take it back only BMP images are shown and JPG is not retrived
> successfully.
> I am using IBO IB_Image control.
> The error message I get is "Not BMP,Meta data or icon file".
> Why is this so?
> What should I do to store & retrive all types of images
>
> Thanks
> VigneZ