Positive. Calvin Hsia checked it out for me and reported back that Crystal Reports was not handling the COM stuff properly.

>Craig,
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>>You can't. Due to a bug in Crystal Reports 9, the ability to dynamically load pictures this way doesn't work with VFP. It does, however, work with VB. You may be able to create a DLL in VB that will do this for you and call it from the report.
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>Not having used CR9, are you sure you cannot use EVENTHANDLER() to capture the format event in the RDC to a VFP object? I've been doing that in both CR 8.5 and in CR10 and use the FormattedPicture property to replace the thing ?
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>Walter,
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