>>Hey Gary, you can also use the PICTURE property of an image, improve >>perfomance and also get a transparent background. The trick is, as you >>said, loading the image once since each trip to the disk may take more >>time.

>>So just preload your images. There are a number of ways to do this. Here's >>1

Thanks Bernard, I'll give that a try, It would work nicely in this situation.


Gary.