Hi James,

Just found this link
http://www.utmag.com/wconnect/wc.dll?9,7,10,2090 which seems like exactly what do you need. Sorry for being a little bit late with this.

>Naomi --
>
>Following Thread #700704, as you directed, allowed me to create this little PRG
>

Lparameters lcPictureFileName
>Local lcResult
>
>Local loImage As GpImage Of ffc/_gdiplus.vcx
>loImage = Newobject("GpImage", Home() + "ffc/_gdiplus.vcx")
>loImage.CreateFromFile(lcPictureFileName)
>lcResult = loImage.GetPropertyItem(306)
>
>Return Ctot( "^" + Strtran(Left(lcResult,10), ":", "/") + Right(lcResult,9))
>

>
>Which returns "Date Picture Taken" for a JPG file ... Thanks
>
>>>Naomi --
>>>
>>>My question doesn't have to do with optimization -- it has to do with the field "picture taken on", which is not returned by ADIR. (This field may be made visible in Explorer, but the problem is that I want the icons to be sorted by this field -- and the option is not available).
>>>
>>>
>>>>>Is there some alternative to ADIR that allows me to get the "date picture taken" for all pictures in a folder?
>>>>>
>>>>>TIA,
>>>>
>>>>Re: ADIR optimization Thread #542818 Message #542840 (searched by the wrong word again <g>)
>>
>>Re: File Properties Thread #700704 Message #700707
>>Re: Getting the number of pages of a Microsoft Word document Thread #638698 Message #638856