>I am preparing a scattergram module to plot x/y coordinates from a DBF.
>The program sets point properties bsed on values in COL, SYM, size, etc. fields in the DBF. Each point is plotted using addobject() and this works very well, even with large files. I have been experimenting with using LABEL and IMAGE controls for the points. The main difficulty I have is with the SYMBOLS. The question: Is there a way to use images (or shapes?) as in e.g. small triangles or squares where I can adjust the size and colour of the points? Thanks.

I've done this the way you did. For the symbols, I used labels with FontName = "WingDings" (which are, of course, scalable and colourable), but I didn't need too many symbols (there are free symbol fonts available in he 'Net in case you need something richer).