Can you create the cursor and do the APPEND GENERAL command in the command window? You may not having any application associated with BMPs on your machine and that would explain why it gets an error creating the OLE object.

Cathy


>Cathy:
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>I thought if I put the code in seperate prgs and called fillpict function I could see what was happending
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>I get an error "creating OLE object" not sure why
>* Add the picture to the cursor
>SELECT tmpCursor
>APPEND GENERAL MyPicture FROM &lcFile
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>The I am opening the Inventor table and I can see the tempcursor in the VIEW
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>Not sure what is happening.
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>Ken