Hey Richard,

>VFP 5.0
>I want to display a picture in my form only if a character field equals a certain value. Ex- if machine.model equals hal2000 then the hal.bmp image will be visible on form. Could anyone lead me in the right direction?  Thanks.

You could place an image control on a form and set it's Picture property at runtime depending on the machine.model.

Or you could place the bmp itself in the corresponding record as a General field. You could use APPEND GENERAL to get the image in the field.

HTH,