>>>
>>>I actually tried using custom properties to hold states for a button - Normal, MouseEnter,Selected and the PictureVal property and this worked with no disk access of any file.
>>>
>>>But this failed with syntax errors when I tried with a bigger bitmap.
>>>So it looks like I am going to haveto ship the BMP's with the VCX and SCX files.
>>>Bernard

You can try using custom methods that assign the string to PictureVal
But you need to limit the command line to 8k.

FUNCTION getPic
#DEFINE CRLF CHR(13)+CHR(10)

LOCAL cFlag, cPict, i
cFlag = '0'
cPict = STRCONV(FILETOSTR(GETPICT()),13) &&encode to base64
_cliptext = [STRCONV( ;] + CRLF
FOR i=1 TO LEN(cPict) STEP 80
	IF cFlag = '0'
		_cliptext = [] + _cliptext + ["] + SUBSTR(cPict, i, 80) + [" ;  ] + CRLF
		cFlag = '1'
	ELSE 
		_cliptext = [] + _cliptext + [+ "] + SUBSTR(cPict, i, 80) + [" ;  ] + CRLF
	ENDIF 		
NEXT 
_cliptext = _cliptext + [, 14)]  
RETURN