Hello again Sergey,

You might be interested in this. I tried the mthod you suggested using:


oImg=createobject(image)
scan
oImg.picture=images.filename
endscan

for 450 records in the images table (over a fairly slow network), and it took around 400 seconds.

I did the same scan -endscan using a low-level read and parse of the jpg file headers using this jpgsize() function from Thomas Gehrke.See:


http://www.wikis.com/wc.dll?WC~JpgSizeFunction
http://www.wikis.com/wc.dll?WC~GifSizeFunction

This took only 37 seconds! The simplest code is not always the fastest...

Thanks again anyway

John