>I wish I new the correct verbage for this one, but here goes.
>
>I need to display file icon types and the rspective file description.
>
>ie: Let us say I have a table with 2 records in it,
>record "a" has the path of Word document (Larry1.doc)
>record "b" has the path of Pdf file (Linda.pdf)
>
>I need to display these 2 files as icons in the form.
>
>Pretty much, like when you attach a Word Doc to an email, the attachment is identified by its file type, description and path.
>
>Like I said I wish I new the correct terminology for this one.
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>Larry

Hi Larry,

Where in the form are you going to show these icons? In the grid?
If the number of file types is limited, you might just have these icons grabbed as pictures (BMP or JPG), add them to your app and show the appropriate picture with something like

IF UPPER(JUSTEXT(myfilepath)) = "DOC"
   imagecontrol1.picture = "DOC.BMP"
ELSE
   imagecontrol1.picture = "RTF.BMP"
ENDIF

If you want to show them in the grid you should use the trick with one of Dynamic... properties calling the UDF whih will change the picture on the fly, like it described in FAQ#7934