I don't know how would you have an image w/o referring to disk at all.
Cetin

>Hi Cetin
>Thanks for your reply. The reason I was asking about this is :
>
>You can use the PictureVal property of an Image object to hold the actual image data. This means you don’t have to refer to a disk file to display the image(Craig Berntson)
>
>Craig states "...you don’t have to refer to a disk file ..."
>
>That is what I am curious about. Disk files, Blob fields etc all require that the file is read from disk at runtime. This is not what he says. Even a Blob field is data that will be stored somewhere.
>
>What I am trying to achieve is to display the bitmap using the PictureVal property WITHOUT" going to the disk at runtime.
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>How do I do that?
>
>I have a feeling that there are some issues with the property being truncated at CHR(0) or some such problem.
>
>
>>>Hi Guys
>>>
>>>Has anyone successfully used the PictureVal property of an Image control to display an image?
>>>
>>>I read recently in Craig Berntson's blog -
>>>
>>>http://www.craigberntson.com/archives/2004_09_01_archive.asp
>>>
>>>the following :
>>>
>>>You can use the PictureVal property of an Image object to hold the actual image data. This means you don’t have to refer to a disk file to display the image.
>>>
>>>I have tried but no picture shows at runtime. I used the following PRG to allow me to select a picture which is then stored in the PictureVal property of an image object on a form.
>>>
>>>
>>>* getpicture.prg
>>>**********************
>>>ON KEY LABEL CTRL+P do getpix in c:\vfp9\getpicture.prg
>>>RETURN
>>>**********************
>>>FUNCTION getpix
>>>LOCAL bb,cStr,cFile
>>>bb = SYS(1270)
>>>IF bb.baseclass=´Image´
>>>cFIle = GETFILE("BMP,JPG,GIF","Select Picture")
>>>IF EMPTY(cFile)
>>> RETURN
>>>ENDIF
>>>cStr=FILETOSTR(cFile)
>>>bb.Pictureval=cStr
>>>ENDIF
>>>
>>>
>>>I Select the Image object and then in the property sheet I select the PictureVal Property and place my cursor on this property.
>>>
>>>I then hover my mouse over the image and press Ctrl+P. I then select a BMP - in my case fox.bmp in the VFP main directory. The picture shows up in the image object on the form and the property has some chrs in it.
>>>
>>>However on running the form the picture is NOT displayed and the does not appear after that till I repeat the Ctrl+P stuff.
>>>
>>>So how do you store the image in this property and display it without going to disk for it?
>>>
>>>What is Craig talking about when he says that "you don’t have to refer to a disk file to display the image."
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>>Bernard,
>>I think it's not a good way to use for disk based files (meaning file is already on disk-not stored in a memo or blob field).
>>If you'd use it with disk based files use Picture property instead. PictureVal uses twice the memory needed to render it when used with file references.
>>If you store your pictures in BLOB field then you should go with PictureVal.
>>

oForm.myImage.PictureVal = myTable.myBLOBfield

>>If you store file name and path in a field (or get file path at run time as you did with getfile() or getpict()) or would directly store to a property then use Picture property:
>>

oForm.myImage.Picture = m.cFile

>>

oForm.myImage.Picture = myTable.myImageNameAndPath

>>or as Property in PEM sheet:
>>Picture: c:\my Path\myImageFile.jpg
>>Cetin