weird.. i built a new stack and put your code in, and then modified it to use the code i wrote (using the selectedChunk function) it worked.. i'll check to see what's different in my original stack.. RR2.01 WinXP (home) ----- Original Message Follows ----- > answer file "Choose an image:" > set the imagesource of char 1 of fld 1 to > ("binfile:"&it)