You know, if you created an account, you'd get an email so you'd know right away when someone answered you. Why do you have a view if you don't put anything in it ? You basically need to use LoadImage to load a bitmap from disk, then BitBlt or StretchBlt to draw it onto the view. From memory you found the code to do it in a dialog on CP - the code will be identical. Christian Hey, at least Logo had, at it's inception, a mechanical turtle. VB has always lacked even that... - Shog9 04-09-2002 During last 10 years, with invention of VB and similar programming environments, every ill-educated moron became able to develop software. - Alex E. - 12-Sept-2002