>>Well that's the strange thing, because I have MS Paint, XP Pro, VFP 7. Yes, I expected to just be able to drop the OLEBound control and set the controlsource and things would work, ie: picture would display.
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>>>Andrew in my computer MS Paint does the job I'm using WIN2K SP2.
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>>>>Thanks, Alexandre.
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>>>>Do you have any suggestions for such a piece of software?
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>>>>Andrew
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>Andrew,
>Try :
>append general < genfld > from < fielname > class paint.picture
>Cetin

Thanks Cetin, I still get a square black box with a caption of the originating imported bitmap file, instead of a display of the bitmap itself. Are there any properties of the OLEBound control that need to be set that I am unaware of?

Andrew