>I have 2 suggestions for you Stephen:
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>1. ActiveX controls cannot process events until a wait state occurs, so clicking an ActiveX control has no effect while user program code is executing. This is the same behavior for Visual FoxPro controls such as the Grid1.
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>_VFP.AutoYield = .F. && Somewhere at the beginning of your app
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>2. You may want to specify a fully qualified path in your laPictures[lnPicture,2] element.
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>Either way, let me know. I've quite a bit of development using these ActiveX controls within VFP.
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>P.S. Are you using VFP 5 or VFP6? What version of the ActiveX controls?

VFP 6.0 and autoyield is set to .F. in the "main". I believe that Doug's response hits the nail on the head........geeze....can you imagine....a bug in LoadPicture(). Why am I not surprised.\

Thanks much,
Steve