Thumbnail viewing

[Eamon]

I am using an array of 25 image controls to display 25 images as thumbnails in a browser screen. Unfortunately the images take a while to display depending on the size of the images, so how can I speed up the process. For example one of my mates is using my program but says the images display faster if they are BMP format. But I want the browser screen to show the files in any format without the user haveing to convert them first. Anyway, why should a BMP image display faster than a TIF or GIF, for example, when the BMP image is larger in bytes?
I've tried various thumbnail browser codes and ocx's but even they seem to display even slower than mine!
My program is free (go to http:\\timesup.50megs.com to download the prog) so I dont want to pay for a professionally designed control or code.

[Arcom]

BMP images load faster because they are not compressed, unlike GIF or JPG images which uses a bit complex compression so it takes more time do decode them.