BTW, are you going to write it in C++ or in VFP? In reply to your message "Retrieving imags off the clipboard" I sent you VFP GDI+ image class.

>Thanks Alexander,
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>That looks pretty good.
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>Turns out that I looked into the GDI+ stuff yesterday and that works relatively easily, so I got it working that way. For my specific application it was going to be easier to write everything out to file and import back in.
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>FWIW, here's the code for the two functions which basically allow you to read one image from the strip at a time into a file, then write them back one at a time. The main advantage here is that this is using GDI+ which means I can accept images in most common image formats as input, not just BMP files.