Fred,

I use the method Mike suggests. Once you've displayed the image do a ?? "" it'll make VFP repaint the screen much better.

>does anybody know how to centre a bmp. I use _screen.picture=mypicture.bmp. The picture size is 400*180. . VFP automatically TILEs it. Is there anyway I could centre the whole picture without having to increase the size of the BMP.