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>If you are picky you can say that everything comes from disk in the first place, so what's your point?
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Since you ask, and appear not to have read my original post, my point is this:

A class (ideally) is supposed to work without any external files or resources. In my class I have many images that at the moment I have to store on disk and also supply with the class. (Note there is no mention of an EXE here).

I read on Craig Berntson's blog where he says that using the PictureVal you don't need to access files on disk anymore. Thinking this was a solution to my problems, I further investigated and on failing to use this property to actually STORE anything useful, I came to the UT with my questions, hoping for some enlightenment.

I already know about Blobs and exe files. That was not what I was looking for, but a way to store the actual bitmap in the Pictureval property so that I did not have to ship the BMP's. Besides I believed this was possible since an MVP had said so.

That was my point. I hope I am clear. I am not picky, just looking for a particular solution. Since I already know about EXE files and blob fields, I am not really looking for solutions using those methods.

Only a way to actually use the PictureVal property as it was meant to be used - to store an image at design time to display at runtime.

I can see no use for a property that needs to be set at runtime only. It might as well have been a method to call to access the file than to be a Property that you need to set at runtime and then be forced to write additional code to get the data and display.


>At least I showed you a way to include the picture inside the exe and reduce the number of files for distribution, which I thought may be your concern.
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>If you want to be able to show a picture on some canvas by a handle you may consider using some ActiveX component are Win API calls to do this kind of things.
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>Bye, Olaf.