Hi!

Hilmar is right, it is better do not use the General field to store images. Specialy if you plan to save picture from general field to disk - there is no easy way for that.

You see the icon in general field because there are no OLE Server application installed on that machine to view image file of that type as image, thus you see only icon. This appears to be the worst problem because such software should be installed on each client machine when each client want to see images.

It is good idea to store image file content in the VFP Memo field. To display it you can programmatically extract the content of memo field to temporary bitmap file on the disk and use that temporary file to display image. (take a look to STRTOFILE()/FileToStr() functions and Append memo command).

HTH.

>I have a general field in a table where I put a single picture, if i use the command 'append general' to insert the picture, i just see a small icon with the name of the file in the general field, and i see exactly the same if i use an oleboundcontrol in a form to show this picture.
>Which command should i use to let the users update this general field with an image file, using the getfile command ( or something similar ), and when i show the picture in the form, is exactly than the original.
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>TIA