Virusim,

The reason that I asked about the file sizes is because I wrote a VFP app. that loads images from jpg files that vary from 50K to 100K and there is no problem with the speed. This is of course a subjective measure and will also depend on the hardware configuration that it is setup on. For example, if the images are on a mapped network drive, that will add to the slowdown, especially if they are "large" files and a "slow" load time is to be expected.

I understand that the images will vary by client, but, from your initial question you said that you loaded 6 images and that it loaded slowly. What were the sizes of the files that you are trying to load? Are we talking less than 100K, 1MB, >1MB?

Mike.

>Hi,
>
>The image files size will depend on my customer.
>My application will just load the file when running.
>So I must somehow know the file size and resolution that
>is most suitable to be load without slowing down my application.
>>>picture file resolution and size to within reasonable quality.

>>>>Hi,
>>>>
>>>>>My application need to load some picture file like .bmp, .jpg and .gif.
>>>>>During my application will had to load at least 6 of the files for
>>>>>displaying use. The time taken is rather slow.
>>>>>Is there any way to speed it up beside reducing the file size.
>>>>>Please kindly advise me on this area.
>>>>
>>>>If the pictures you have to load are always the same, you can compile them into the EXE. This should be faster than loading from disk.
>>>>
>>>>HTH,
>>>>Armin