>Hi to everybody, I am new here in fact this is my first thread. I am trying to do an application which takes values from a DBF file an draws a bar chart in BMP format into the main screen ( _screen ). I am askin for advises on how to do this, like any activex that I can use or something, any help is appreciated

I don't think you can hang an image on the main screen without having it tiled. You can draw a graph on the main screen. See message#861935 for a cool drawing solution on _SCREEN.

Or you could use a VFP form as a main screen (As top level form), and use MSChart (Menu to "Tools - Options - Controls - (list) - Microsoft Chart Control) activeX to present the chart on the "main" vfp form.