>When I ran the above event, I was shown a dialog box asking me to pick a .bmp file but after i'd selected a .bmp, file I got an error message:
variable mpictfile not found. OLE eror code 0x80040000a: Not able to
bind to the source

>What does that means ? I'm currently using Visul Promatrix 5.0c and had written to them about the problem. They told me that it wasn't a technical Promatrix problem and didn't give me any solution but told me to refer to the VFP Developer's Guide. I couldn't find any error message in the guide book.How to get picture files into the gen field from a form ?

We are using the following and it works fine.

pFile = GETFILE('BMP','Select Picture File:','Select',0)
IF !EMPTY(pFile)
APPEND GENERAL members.photo FROM (pfile)
ENDIF

Does it make difference with yours?