>I think this is not the road for me to take. Unless I missed something, I instantiated a browser and used the following syntax: oexplorer.navigate("urladdress"). If the urladdress points to a .tif file, the browser won't show it but instead invites you to save to disk or open the file. If you choose to go ahead and open, the .tif file opens in an image editor external to the browser; this is unacceptable to me and what I'm trying to do.

No, actually I meant generating some HTML document which would include all of the documents to show - text, images. Then you'd point the browser to this HTML and the images would come in within the frames. The trouble is, images need to be on disk (no General fields and such stuff), and you have to stuff full relative paths, substitute backslashes for forward slashes in the paths etc, but that should work. It wouldn't ask you to spawn an external app for a .html file, that's for sure.

> Also, just to make you laugh, I tried (several times) dropping the ActiveX Web Browser control onto a form and each time Dr Watson gave me a house call (what kind of junk is this?).

I've laughed myself, when it said "this program was naughty and should be spanked from module ... using hex whip".

> Is Ken Levy's _screenx some kind of wrapper for this control or what (I've never seen it before)?

A set of wrapper classes. It works like a browser, it uses a browser, yet it doesn't completely look like a browser. I had another power out so I'll have to restart drilling into it.

>Unless you tell me something I'm missing out on, I'm travelling a different path. With that said, I would still like to see what you've been working on. It sounds interesting and could definitely come in handy as a generic type of viewer. Talk to you later and thanks for the suggestion.

I'll send you something similar, which generates a table from arbitrary data, and the table is a HTML table. No nice GUI so far, but it generates decent HTML.