Hi!
>BTW, I already added the wish to wishes list - it is about use of picture objects in VFP controls (alternative to the Picture property that accepts only filepath) as well as some other enhancement related to the pictures.

I have recently found that VFP picture reference (created by LOADPICTURE()) in fact is standard OLE Picture object (with IPicture interface, StdPicture in VB). For instance, one can write:
x = LoadPicture("...")
? x.Type, x.Height, x.Width
May be this fact is well-known, but it doesn't mentioned in VFP documentation.