Diagram storing

[morphiz]

hi, I have to develop an application which has to store mathematical problems with diagrams. The database I have to use is Access.

please tell me how to go about it.

[IROY55]

What do you use to develop diagrams?

[phinds]

you don't store problems and you don't store diagrams, you store FILES. We need to know what your files look like.

[morphiz]

Well, I had started out by creating a question bank where the user can store questions based on subject and year.

I had a text field(multiple lines) and the user typed his question in this field which I then stored in Access database.

But I have come across this problem in mathematical questions where the questions also have diagrams associated with them. Now I want to know how do I do this. If I allow the user to draw circles or triangles will I be able to store them??

Or any advice because frankly I am stumped.

[IROY55]

If you already have a diagram somewhere them you may just create an image and store as let's say bmp file. Then load it along with your question and that's about it.
You may use Visio to create a digram and store it as WHATEVER.

Roy

[dw85745]

I would approach the problem by creating a separate table (or two if you want (depending if you want a separate listing of diagrams and functions) which would contain the directory and file name of the diagram(s) and Math function(s).

The files (diagrams and functions) would be binary files.