>>>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.
>>>>>
>>>>>Do you have any suggestions for such a piece of software?
>>>>>
>>>>>Andrew
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>>Andrew,
>>Try :
>>append general < genfld > from < fielname > class paint.picture
>>Cetin
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>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

I'd try PBrush as class too. With append general I don't know any other properties that might affect it. If you use Insert object or Paste from (menu) than I remember I saw that. Maybe you could try :
Blank < genfld >
first. Also check what BMP files are opened with when dblcliked in explorer.
Cetin