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I assume you are using the message command in the form.open event? That won't work as the form.must open first. Best way is to create a timer and start it in the form open event. Have the timer event use the message command and form.open can continue to work Private hTimer as Timer Public sub Form_...

Thanks Bruce, that did the trick. I had tried the IconX and IconY but couldn't get them to work as I put them in the wrong place.

Try putting Me.Show before you open F1 and again before displaying the Message.

When I drag an image on the screen the mouse is positioned top left just outside the image. Is there a way to get the mouse cursor to be within the image being dragged?

Opps, sorry PJBlack. You were right, as is everybody else as well. It works like a charm.

Reminder, I must read posts more carefully!

I am aware of 'Stretch'. Much better to use Mode than stretch. What I am doing gets a picture to line up with a GridView when being dragged. Below you can see it works. This allows me to resize the form and the image still lines up, so it needs to be exact. So sorry, 'Stretch' doesn't cut it! https:...

Can anybody tell me how to resize a picture without using a Shell command?

 Shell "convert pict.png -resize 100x100 /tmp/pict.png" Wait

I am running Linux Mint 21 with the Cinnamon desktop. It has "Startup applications" menu. Here you can see my music player that will wait for 15 seconds before starting. I expect other distros have something similar. Does this help?

Have you tried setting the help files for offline? Tools>Preferences>Help & applications

Use of sets can quite often shorten code; suppose you want to take some action depending on whether a number is in a certain range, eg, IF(n >= 5 AND n <= 10) OR (n >= 25 AND n <= 30) THEN... Using a set with the appropriate range you need only write IF set_in(n, ranges) THEN... which is simpler an...