Hee hee - something like Herman's just suggested!

>Wait! I've had another thought. Can you not programmatically decouple the image from the control, then re-assign it to the control, after the edit session in Paint.
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>Because, in form edit mode, if you change an image, it won't show the new version unless you set the image property to it afresh.
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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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