>Well, first, you have to decise on how to store the references to the pictures. Maybe just a character field with the pointers to the pictures. Since there can be more than one picture, I would use some character to delimit the pointers. Then when you want to show the list of pictures (building a listbox), you can use the AT() and SUBSTR() functions to build the list as you would like. I would do something like this when storing the list of files:

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(filename1)(delimiterA)(description1)(delimiterB)(filename2()delimiterA)(description2)...

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>So, use a delimiter to split the filename from the description of the file (to be used in the picklist) and use another delimiter to split the next picture.
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>When the user picks the file they want, display it in your chosen control.
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>>Ok, I will do this little over again (and hopefully shorter).
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>>How would you handle JPEG image without having the image IN the database/table?
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>>Lets say I have inventory system created by VFP 6.0.
>>The unique ID field name is "Decal".
>>I have 5,000 records (therefore 5,000 Decal numbers)
>>There are 4,000 *.jpg pictures.
>>3,000 Decal have pictures which means 1,000 (or less) of those 3,000 Decal have duplicated pictures.
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>>WITHOUT storing image in the database or table (as Object or General, whatever), how to link the Decal to DOS file (*.jpg) as well how to display the picture by a click of a button (on a form)? Displaying one picture would be easy, but if there is multiple picture for one Decal record?
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>>Example (just an example!): One record, Decal is "PC2233" and there are 4 pictures for "PC2233", via, CPU, monitor, keyboard, and mouse. How would I display the pictures as well how to have a pop up list or something since there are more than 1 picture for the user to pick to display rather showing four new windows of picture of each item?
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>>Comon, can you follow this?
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>>Chuck