Thanks for your advice Mark!

>>You are the man!
>>Thanks!
>>
>>>You can use PictureVal property to load image from a Blob field or other source. Check PictureVal Property help for details.
>>>
>>>>To show the picture in a form I can do the reverse operation by issuing a STRTOFILE
>>>>to a temporary file and then display the picture using an Image Control.
>>>>I was wondering if there is a way to do this "on-the-fly" without creating
>>>>a temporary file.
>
>See Borislav's message # 1377791 -- I don't have a lot of experience in this area myself,
>but most people with a lot of experience working w/ images suggest that his approach -- save image
>outside the table, store its path in the table -- provides the most flexibility and fewest later regrets.
>
>-mark