>>>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.".

Personally I usually use a timer to refresh the image, so that if my users navigates in a table, the image is not refreshed during the navigation, but about 0.25s after the navigation is stopped. This prevents flicker and reduces the network traffic. I have created a subclass for this purpose.