Steve,

>I would like to have a background image that is always displayed when my application is running. Is the _Screen.Picture the correct way of doing this? How do I make sure the image always fills the viewing area of my application window?>

I've been around the block a few times on this one and achieved the best results by using a single bitmap that looked good in both VGA and SVGA. Depending on the picture you're using, an automatic resize can look pretty bad! We just completed a graphics-filled application for McGraw-Hill and they were pleased with the results.

You can simply add the bitmaps to the _SCREEN object in your application's BeforeReadEvents().

Regards,