Lotus Notes® and Domino® 6 Application Development Exam Cram™ 2 (Exams 610, 611, and 612)

Using Images in Applications

Notes/Domino has long supported the use of images in applications through copying and pasting images into a form and importing images into a form. In Domino R5, image resources were added to further extend the use of images in Domino applications, which greatly improves your ability to manipulate and manage images.

An image resource is a graphic that can be displayed throughout an application, from a central location within the database. This saves space and minimizes maintenance because any changes you make to the image are automatically reflected in each place that references the image resource. An image resource can be a GIF, JPEG, or BMP file and is saved in the database. After you have created an image resource, ...