thanx for your reply. I was looking for an OCX that could read any image format from a General field, but i quit this idea and started using VFP´s image OCX reading direct from the image file. What i am looking for now is an OCX that display Animated GIF images. I found one, but i could not resized the image on the form. If you know of any OCX that can display and resize animated GIF images, it would be realy nice.