Hi Dorin

Hey Absolutely great. It works.

Don't be surprised at my enthuiasm, but I have been seeking an answer for a while now and either I get nothing or the wrong one or someone telling me to load the file from disk at runtime.

So what I had assumed was right. The property is incompatiable with CHR(0) and the data is being terminated.

By converting to Base64 and back again the data is preserved. Now I no longer have to ship my BMP'S with my code.

Thanks a million for your clear but correct answer.

Bernard

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>>"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."
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>>How do you do that?
>>How do you hold image data in a PictureVal property so that you don't need to refer to a disk file at runtime?
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>A simple approach
>When in design mode...
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_cliptext = STRCONV(FILETOSTR(GETFILE('bmp')),13)  &&encode to base64

>Then paste the string into PictureVal property
>In Init...
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this.PictureVal = STRCONV(this.PictureVal,14)