I am having trouble getting bmp files embedded in a general field in my database to display on the form and in reports.

Command used is:

APPEND GENERAL signature FROM bitmap\thursday.bmp

When I place an OLEBound control on the form with controlsource=signature I get a small black square with the caption "Thusday.bmp" instead of the picture I wish to get.

The same result when I place the OLEBound control on a report with the field set to signature.

Is this behaviour by design, or am I missing something? What is the correct way to get the desired result?

Thanks in advance,

Andrew