Instead of displaying in a DataWindow, try using a web browser control.

Hi,

You could try to copy the pictures that are going to be shown to a temporary local folder first on your harddrive and then display those. It might make a difference. When done displaying (close of window?), you simply delete the complete temporary files.

regards.

Hi.

Have you tried to set setredraw to false before retrieve and to true after retrieve? Of course if you have lot of images this may be also a problem as the application will look frozen until retrieve completes...

Andreas.

Thanks for replay ,

I forgot to say  that the users can modify some fiields of each pic , thats why i  prefer a dw .. for its sort , filter , update and  the events 

are much easier to handle and so on , each time i do retrieve  can be other amount of pics