Thank You anyway Terry

>Ah well that defeates what was going to be my suggestion of discretely disappearing the form in the background, whilst in PaintBrush, then restarting it invisible.
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>Sorry - Dunno
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>>No it doesn't as also if I exit the form and then run it again a still see the same old picture. The only way to be sure of displaying the new picture is to exit from VFP and start it again.
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>>>presumably a refresh() to the form, and/or the image control doesn't have any effect, after altering the pic and coming back?
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