>You are right if you set the path or refer to the path it works fine but this is not what I want.

Try to compile with path set correctly it might make difference.
Then you should not hv to distribute bmp with exe.

I am not sure, it is just wild guess - that it might help compiler
to locate file at compilation time.
I have it like this, and it works without distributing bmp. (VFP6)

Rgds++