Mark,

After the paint program is closed.

With the standard VFP image class I'd do this.

CLEAR RESOURCES && empty the VFP image cache
this.imgTest.Picture = this.imgTest.Picture && force a refresh

This sort of thing should work with your OLE control.

>ok, i have a little program that opens the image with the olecontrol I then call DOVERB(-2) "opens it in PAINT", but I can't see to get the changes I made to save back to the file? What am I missing?