>I have an application that holds a path to pictures in a field (c:\pictures\mypic.jpg). This works fine on screen using the image object, but when it comes to reports the file option won't take an expression, it seems to need a literal filename. Nor will it handle a function returning a filename.
>My other alternative was to place the data in a cursor with a general field holding the filename (APPEND GENERAL picture FROM (mFile) CLASS image/jpg).
>This works fine with bmp files, but not with jpg or gif files. All I get with jpg or gif files is a reference to the file but no picture.
>Has anyone got any ideas ?
>Thanks
>John


John,

Place a picture control on the report. Then, instead of entering a file name in the “Picture From File:” field, you enter the field name, surrounded by parenthesis as shown below:

(MyFile.MyPicture)

Note ... that if you are using FoxPro 2.x, this won't work. And if you are using a VFP version prior to VFP 6.0, you will be limited to BMPs. VFP 6.0 added JPG support.

Cathy