>Hey Naomi,
>
>I'm afraid that PictureVal would return the same "X" output as loading the picture in the common way.
>
>And Rodd is still with VFP8 that does not have the "PictureVal" property.
>
>Regards
>
>Cesar
>

Yes, as quite often with me I jumped into the thread too soon. I think you provided a solution and we don't need an assign method at all.

Interesting blog by Calvin, BTW. And I enjoy your blogs as well.