>I wish I new the correct verbage for this one, but here goes.
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>I need to display file icon types and the rspective file description.
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>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)
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>I need to display these 2 files as icons in the form.
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>Pretty much, like when you attach a Word Doc to an email, the attachment is identified by its file type, description and path.
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>Like I said I wish I new the correct terminology for this one.
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>Thanks in advance
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Larry,

You can do this via the API. I wrote an article on the subject ("Use Windows to Create Windows", FoxPro Advisor, August, 1998). If you have a copy of this issue, you might want to look at it. Among other things, it shows how to do exactly this. There are a couple of problems, however. First, you can only display the icon as 16x16. Second, because VFP doesn't "know" about the image, it can be difficult to keep it displayed correctly.

If you're interested, but don't have access to the magazine, let me know and I'll post some code.