OLE CONTAINER - BLOB

Hi,
I have a Blob column in my table. I am displaying the blob column in a OLE Container. To open the object inside the OLE, I just doucle-click on it.
For example, my blob column has PDF, JPG files, etc... then i double-click, and the PDF or JPG file opens normally.
But now I don't want to show the OLE Container in the canvas. It will have a button to open the content of the OLE Container.
What's the commnad to do it? (what command is executed when i was double-clicking?)
Thx...

Hi SYSDATE,
I'm trying to insert pdf via ole_container without success.
Could you pls send me a copy of this forms?
Thank you...

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