>Hi Lance,
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>>but if I just put a permanent image object on the form and try to change the .BMP it doesn't update.
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>If this BMP file has always the same name, you need CLEAR RESOURCE before assigning a new picture to the image control. Also you can try to set the Picture property to an empty string before assigning a new image.
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>Christof

Actually, when the form first comes up frmForm1.imgImage1.Picture = "", then I set it to an explicit path and it doesn't show the bitmap file. And I am assigning a new random name to each .BMP file.