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Hello, I am trying to load a GUI into a form's background image and then set the form's width and height to that of the picture. I have the actually loading the GUI done, but when I try to load the width and height, it sets it incorrectly. Meaning, it makes both to big. Here is my code



In frmMainMenu I use this call:


Any tips on loading the correct width and height?

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You load it into the form picture here:


And here you try to get the width from something that doesn't exist:


This part doesn't exist. you cant have picture.width. It should be curForm.Width, in that case. But that wont work for you either.

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I tried


before I I tried my new code. But they both do the same thing. Shouldn't this have worked since I load the picture's width?

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You can't do that either. I don't know in my head how to do it with a form.

It's much easier if you use a picture box though.

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I know that If I load it into a picture box it will work, but I want to learn the other way, it causes for less controls...

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1 control doesn't make any difference what so ever to anything. It's like having 1 more pixel in paint drawn out.

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Actually, controls are what makes VB exe files huge. Delete all the controls, but have the same functionality written in code, and it will be much much smaller.

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We are talking about 1 control, and the size of the exe aint that important.

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So there is no way to do this without using a control?

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Dave just said it is possible. There isn't a default option for it on the form, I'd say there is a declare for it.

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Anyone know where I could find this declare? Like a database or something full of functions?

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There is probably a function which will allow you to get the width and heigh of the image file.

It's stored in the files properties after all.

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You could extract the size straight from the bitmap file, look for the bitmap fileformat spec. Just open a file just like any binary file, and extract the correct datatype from the correct place.

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I'm sorry to ask, but how would I go about doing that? Would I need to make a program that reads binary files?

(already searched through forums)

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The beginning of every windows bitmap file starts with this:
http://www.fastgraph.com/help/bmp_header_format.html

Load it using the standard binary file I/O routines provided in VB. I'm sure you can find a pre-created structure that loads the header automatically, then just call x = bitmap.width

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Why not try my app, ColorEye, on your Android devlce?
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