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Title: LoadPicture(Filename) Equivalent?
Post by: Michael Meeks on March 12, 2005, 09:43:19 PM

Hi,

In VB: MyControl1.Picture = LoadPicture(Filename)

What's PB's equivalent to: LoadPicture(Filename)

1) Can I load it via binary - copy to clipboard - then grab it from the clipboard:

MyControl1.Picture = (grab from clipboard-2)

2) Or is there a better way?

Title: LoadPicture(Filename) Equivalent?
Post by: Haakon Birkeland on March 12, 2005, 10:16:38 PM

Coming from a trivial and nice VB background myself, I perfectly know what you expect. Unfortunately that's kinda far from how the API goes some(most)times.. Have a look at this (http://www.planetsquires.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1143) thread.

Title: LoadPicture(Filename) Equivalent?
Post by: Michael Meeks on March 12, 2005, 10:44:42 PM

Haakon,

Thanks... I should have seen that! Found some other sources also.
RTFM... my wife says... :twisted:

Regards
Mike

Title: LoadPicture(Filename) Equivalent?
Post by: Jose Roca on March 12, 2005, 11:35:51 PM

One little apportation. When the control is an OCX, it usually needs an IPicture object, not an handle to an icon or image. I don't know if this is the case here, but maybe you will need it in the future.

See this thread and you will learn a couple of things that VB makes under the hood :)

http://www.powerbasic.com/support/forums/Forum6/HTML/004239.html

Title: LoadPicture(Filename) Equivalent?
Post by: Michael Meeks on March 13, 2005, 01:59:21 AM

Jose,

Thanks for the info - always appreciate your help and direction!

Mike

Title: LoadPicture(Filename) Equivalent?
Post by: Haakon Birkeland on March 13, 2005, 07:12:53 AM

Yeah, pay attention to Jose's advise on these matters! He's the God of ActiveX around.. - a real huge asset on the subject. :wink:

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