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[Andy Chan]

I'm trying to dynamically add a picturebox control to a form.

I'm following some coding I see in the form designer generated code:
....and so far....nothing. Any help is appreciated.
Dim myPicture As New PictureBox()

With myPicture

myPicture = New System.Windows. Forms.PictureBo x()

..Visible = True

..Name = "NewPicture "

..Size = New System.Drawing. Size(64, 48)

'myPicture.Loca tion.X = new System.drawing

..TabStop = False

..Location = New System.Drawing. Point(700, 300)

..Image.FromFil e("c:\temp\holi day1.jpg")

..Show()

End With

[Crirus]

try this :
myForm.Controls .Add(myPicture)

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Ceers,
Crirus

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"Andy Chan" <an***********@ telus.net> wrote in message
news:OV******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP11.phx.gbl...

I'm trying to dynamically add a picturebox control to a form.

I'm following some coding I see in the form designer generated code:
...and so far....nothing. Any help is appreciated.
Dim myPicture As New PictureBox()

With myPicture

myPicture = New System.Windows. Forms.PictureBo x()

.Visible = True

.Name = "NewPicture "

.Size = New System.Drawing. Size(64, 48)

'myPicture.Loca tion.X = new System.drawing

.TabStop = False

.Location = New System.Drawing. Point(700, 300)

.Image.FromFile ("c:\temp\holid ay1.jpg")

.Show()

End With

[Andy Chan]

Thanks for the hint. It didn't seem to work.

I'm looking around msdn.micrsoft.c om and www.devx.com. Don't suppose you'd
know of anywhere else that you'd recommend for source code? Thanks again.

"Crirus" <Cr****@datagro up.ro> wrote in message
news:Ow******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP09.phx.gbl...

try this :
myForm.Controls .Add(myPicture)

--
Ceers,
Crirus

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If work were a good thing, the boss would take it all from you

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"Andy Chan" <an***********@ telus.net> wrote in message
news:OV******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP11.phx.gbl...

I'm trying to dynamically add a picturebox control to a form.

I'm following some coding I see in the form designer generated code:
...and so far....nothing. Any help is appreciated.
Dim myPicture As New PictureBox()

With myPicture

myPicture = New System.Windows. Forms.PictureBo x()

.Visible = True

.Name = "NewPicture "

.Size = New System.Drawing. Size(64, 48)

'myPicture.Loca tion.X = new System.drawing

.TabStop = False

.Location = New System.Drawing. Point(700, 300)

.Image.FromFile ("c:\temp\holid ay1.jpg")

.Show()

End With

[Crirus]

you can try to convert this C# sample... is quite easy

http://support.microsoft.com/default...;en-us;Q319266

--
Ceers,
Crirus

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If work were a good thing, the boss would take it all from you

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"Andy Chan" <an***********@ telus.net> wrote in message
news:Oc******** *****@TK2MSFTNG P11.phx.gbl...

Thanks for the hint. It didn't seem to work.

I'm looking around msdn.micrsoft.c om and www.devx.com. Don't suppose you'd
know of anywhere else that you'd recommend for source code? Thanks again.

"Crirus" <Cr****@datagro up.ro> wrote in message
news:Ow******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP09.phx.gbl...

try this :
myForm.Controls .Add(myPicture)

--
Ceers,
Crirus

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If work were a good thing, the boss would take it all from you

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"Andy Chan" <an***********@ telus.net> wrote in message
news:OV******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP11.phx.gbl...

I'm trying to dynamically add a picturebox control to a form.

I'm following some coding I see in the form designer generated code:
...and so far....nothing. Any help is appreciated.
Dim myPicture As New PictureBox()

With myPicture

myPicture = New System.Windows. Forms.PictureBo x()

.Visible = True

.Name = "NewPicture "

.Size = New System.Drawing. Size(64, 48)

'myPicture.Loca tion.X = new System.drawing

.TabStop = False

.Location = New System.Drawing. Point(700, 300)

.Image.FromFile ("c:\temp\holid ay1.jpg")

.Show()

End With

[Crirus]

As a hint: Try google with "add controls to forms at run-time NET VB", if
still cant make it work, you may find other exemples

--
Ceers,
Crirus

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If work were a good thing, the boss would take it all from you

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"Crirus" <Cr****@datagro up.ro> wrote in message
news:Ow******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP09.phx.gbl...

try this :
myForm.Controls .Add(myPicture)

--
Ceers,
Crirus

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If work were a good thing, the boss would take it all from you

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"Andy Chan" <an***********@ telus.net> wrote in message
news:OV******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP11.phx.gbl...

I'm trying to dynamically add a picturebox control to a form.

I'm following some coding I see in the form designer generated code:
...and so far....nothing. Any help is appreciated.
Dim myPicture As New PictureBox()

With myPicture

myPicture = New System.Windows. Forms.PictureBo x()

.Visible = True

.Name = "NewPicture "

.Size = New System.Drawing. Size(64, 48)

'myPicture.Loca tion.X = new System.drawing

.TabStop = False

.Location = New System.Drawing. Point(700, 300)

.Image.FromFile ("c:\temp\holid ay1.jpg")

.Show()

End With

[Crirus]

LOL, there is a VB version of it but didnt sow it... silly me

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;EN-US;308433

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Ceers,
Crirus

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If work were a good thing, the boss would take it all from you

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"Crirus" <Cr****@datagro up.ro> wrote in message
news:u%******** ********@tk2msf tngp13.phx.gbl. ..

you can try to convert this C# sample... is quite easy

http://support.microsoft.com/default...;en-us;Q319266

--
Ceers,
Crirus

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If work were a good thing, the boss would take it all from you

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"Andy Chan" <an***********@ telus.net> wrote in message
news:Oc******** *****@TK2MSFTNG P11.phx.gbl...

Thanks for the hint. It didn't seem to work.

I'm looking around msdn.micrsoft.c om and www.devx.com. Don't suppose you'd know of anywhere else that you'd recommend for source code? Thanks again.
"Crirus" <Cr****@datagro up.ro> wrote in message
news:Ow******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP09.phx.gbl...

try this :
myForm.Controls .Add(myPicture)

--
Ceers,
Crirus

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If work were a good thing, the boss would take it all from you

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"Andy Chan" <an***********@ telus.net> wrote in message
news:OV******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP11.phx.gbl...
> I'm trying to dynamically add a picturebox control to a form.
>
> I'm following some coding I see in the form designer generated code:
> ...and so far....nothing. Any help is appreciated.
> Dim myPicture As New PictureBox()
>
> With myPicture
>
> myPicture = New System.Windows. Forms.PictureBo x()
>
> .Visible = True
>
> .Name = "NewPicture "
>
> .Size = New System.Drawing. Size(64, 48)
>
> 'myPicture.Loca tion.X = new System.drawing
>
> .TabStop = False
>
> .Location = New System.Drawing. Point(700, 300)
>
> .Image.FromFile ("c:\temp\holid ay1.jpg")
>
> .Show()
>
> End With
>
>
>
>

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

* "Andy Chan" <an***********@ telus.net> scripsit:

I'm looking around msdn.micrsoft.c om and www.devx.com. Don't suppose you'd
know of anywhere else that you'd recommend for source code? Thanks again.

<http://groups.google.c om>

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MVP · VB Classic, VB.NET
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[Cor]

Hi Andy,
What is the size of your form

.Location = New System.Drawing. Point(700, 300)

Can it be that you paint it beside your form?

And you need in my opinion that Add that Crirus stated.

Cor

[Fergus Cooney]

Hi Andy,

You're right to use the code that the Form Designer creates but you have
to do it carefully (like Crirus's Controls.Add) - and know which bits to do
differently - like Image.

The Designer uses embedded resources which is not what you want. You
spotted that so you used

myPicture.Image .FromFile("c:\t emp\holiday1.jp g")

Unfortunately this loads an image and then throws it away because it's not
being assigned to anything. The use of myPicture doesn't mean that it updates
myPicture!

The bit that you're missing is <setting> the Image.

myPicture.Image = Image.FromFile ("c:\temp\holid ay1.jpg")

Regards,
Fergus

[William Armstrong]

Image.FromFile is a shared function which will return a new Image based on
the file. Being shared, it doesn't have an Image instance to load the file
into, so it won't change the Image who's reference you used to call the
function. Your code isn't assigning the returned image to the Image
property of your PictureBox.

Try replacing this line:
.Image.FromFile ("c:\temp\holid ay1.jpg")

With this line:
.Image = Image.FromFile( "c:\temp\holida y1.jpg")

I think that your code to create and display the PictureBox is working just
fine, it just doesn't have an image to display. You do need to add the
picturebox to the form's control collection though (as mentioned in another
post).