>I try to open BMP file from VFP in Windows Paintbrush. Controls option menu allows to register and use Paintbrush as Insertable object in Form Designer but I cannot find any ways to load file into Paintbrush window (surely I can call Paintbrush as external exe, but it's not the way I am looking for).
>Thanks in advance for help.

If you embed the bmp in the form with a an olecontainer object, you can
activate in ( I use a push button to do this on the form) and then
it will launch Paintbrush with the picutre use ole 2.0 (in place editing) so the menus of VFP (or your app) and those of Paintbrush get merged. ( I think the effect you want). The problem with this is in data storage.
OLE uses big chunks of wasted disk space for pictures. This is not to bad
if you are storing/editing bmp's which are big anyway as it doesn't add much, but is a big problem if you are working with gifs/jpgs as it can bloat file size by a factor of 20-30 times. I have opted for a different solution to this. I store the file names in a table. Then use code to automatically generate a html document with a table listing the records
of the multimedia I want to edit. Then I use DDE to access netscape and
go to the newly created html document. What this allows me to do is
to use VFP via Netscape to view/edit any type of multimedia. It avoids
all extra storage as I simply am storing file names in the VFP table.

Hope this helps.