Thanks for quick reply, "Release" eh? thanks, but this has only helped with surface canvas,

my main problem hopefully will be clearer if you look at this screenshot



each item in my imagelist, is divided into six (pattern?) tiles, i want the user to be able to load six BMP images (the working load procedure is in the onclick events for the six), to make one entryinto the imagelist, but I cannot find a way to sucessfully make one 384*32 image from the indivigual images. I always end up with the upper image, being blank (transparant, as the green form shows through, like when the picture property for timage is not been set). Someone else must have made an app similar to this for editing ImageLists?

(ps sorry the screen shot shows only a static grass tile :? )

This image was made as one wide file, but i want to be able to load the tiles into the imagelist, one-by-one

is it possible?