>Hi Yousfi,
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>Thanks for your contribution:)
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>You are quite right about the time and the CPU consumption. The process is definitely heavy on this side! I made sure to use relatively low-res images. I changed the image type (gif, bmp, png, did not tried the oldish vectorial wmf - I'll try if I can get a hand on way to build them...). No way. I also made sure to use a default image with mycombo.picture = "mydefaultimage.bmp", and assign distinct other images with a mycombo.picture(n) = "myotherimage.bmp". It improved the process but only by a fraction.
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>I undertand that VFP is not exactly a tool of the new century. It can sometime be an advantage - mostly bug-free and low on memory - but yep, here it does not cope with the situation. I get here that possibly the windows API is also part of the issue. We'll manage without image in this combo (all others work quite fine!).
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> Regards from Paris - Daniel

PMFJI

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