>>I'm using VFP 6.0. I have a table that stores a key and the location of the picture.
>
>You can add this code to the form's refresh

>if !empty(yourtable.yourfield)
>  image1.picture=youtable.yourfield
>  image1.visible=.T.
>else
>  image1.visible=.F.
>endif

I've added a method called (surprised?) "refresh" to the image object itself, and guess what - it gets called on every refresh of the parent. So this code could as well go there, with "image." replaced with "this.".