vb.net arrays?

[alfer69]

i have a form with 10 pictureboxes on it.

i can't seem to figure out how to load

pictures into them without hard coding everything.

any hints?

[mutant]

Can you tell something more about what you are hardcoding?

To load a picture into a picturebox you can do this:

PictureBox1.Image = Image.FromFile("path to the file")

[alfer69]

PictureBox1.Image = picimage(1)

PictureBox2.Image = picimage(2)

PictureBox3.Image = picimage(3)

PictureBox4.Image = picimage(4)

if i could make an array of the pictureboxes

i could loop it easy enough

[mutant]

You can make an array of pictureboxes in code, but not in the designer.

[alfer69]

i can make the array of pictureboxes in the code

i can put the pics in them

 

but my question is

how do i get them to show

without hard coding the the names

of the pictureboxes on the form?

[LOFRANK]

You mean a sort of refresh that you need after the pic is loaded in the picturebox?

 

really strange what you are saying, in .net you can't have this kind of problems, i suggest you to have a list of Names of the pictures, and to load it in the form controls by the simple functions that the controls give you

[LOFRANK]

If you have an array of pictureboxes, and you want to show it on a form having almost for example Picturebox1 control ,

 

Picturebox1=pictureArray(1)

 

the game is done.

[Volte]

Use Me.Controls.Add() to add a control to the form. Something like this:

'once you've set up all the PictureBoxes

Dim p As New PictureBox()
For Each p in pictureBoxArray
 Me.Controls.Add(p)
Next p