Hi Andrew,

> Today I received a database file from a user over on OOOForum. He had 
> included a screen shot on the forum of a form that he wanted some help 
> with, in the screen shot you can see that there are a number of buttons 
> on the form. The buttons use grahpics instead of text to depict the 
> button's function. Now when I open the form on my machine all the 
> graphics are gone. It appears that the graphics aren't actually embbeded 
> in the forms definition but linked back to the graphic file non disk. Is 
> this the case?

Yes, for controls currently only link their images. There's an issue
requesting a fix for this, so at least the problem is known :-\

Ciao
Frank

> If so is there anyway around this?
> 
> I know that you can do this with a standard writer document from reading 
> over other posts on the forum, but it doesn't appear to me that the same 
> technique would work in this context.

I don't know those other techniques, but since forms are basically
Writer documents, they should work for forms, too.

Ciao
Frank

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