I''ve switched from VB to Assembler so I don''t remember every as clearly... but I think that refers to a resource included in the vb project, you can include one resource file within a project with whatever you want in it. You can''t just open an obj or res file with those calls it must be in a module (exe or dll) so you could write a dll which loads a bunch of internal picture''s onto surfaces and then passes there handles or something...
- Ben