> On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 15:24:00 -0500, Gary (Lists) <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> 
>> "Eric Schult" wrote:
> 
>>> tell application "filemaker pro"
>>>   tell document 1
>>>       tell current record
>>>           set cell "preview" to alias "path:filename.gif"
>>>       end tell
>>>   end tell
>>> end tell
> 
>> 
>> "Bill Steele" wrote:
>> 
>>> This works for me in Filemaker scripting steps:
>>> 
>>> Go to field [Photo index::image]
>>> Insert picture ["temp.jpg"]
>> 
> 
>> "Bill Steele" wrote:
> 
>> So, in short, in FM _up to 7_ (and maybe including and beyond), one could
>> insert an image by reference simply by setting the container field's value
>> to the string path of the object to insert.
> 
> 
> Thanks for the replies!
> 
> Setting the cell to the filepath as string didn't work for me in FMP6. I
> still would rather do this in AS, but if I can do it with a mix of AS and
> the built-in scripting language in FMP, I'm okay with that. I'll try it.
> Meanwhile, if anybody knows the syntax for inserting a picture file into a
> container field, I'd appreciate the help.

This works:

choose file
copy result as text to f
set data  cell "picture" of current record to file f