VB 6 Newbie Help

**Goldberg** · 15th October 2002

Hi all,

Just learning Visual Basic 6 at Uni and have complied my first program.

Now my program uses different images depending on the outcome of events in the program. This all works fine on my machine as the pictures are located on my hard drive and I have specified where. However when I have emailed to a firend he is telling me that a Run Time error is occuring as the picture file(s) cannot be found?

How do I incorporate them into my program so when it is compiled they are actually part of the exe or do I have to send the exe with an additional folder called 'Images' for example? If this is the case then the user would have to ensure that the folder was always in the same place (eg. c:\prog\images\pic1.gif etc...)

Can anyone help?

Thanks.

**graham.edmon** · 15th October 2002

you could...

1. distribute the images files and make sure they occupy the same directory as the VB executable, then you can use the app.path property to locate the pictures

or

2. create a resource file with the VS C++ Resource Editor and include that in your file and use the LOADPicture statement to load them. (see this link http://216.26.168.92/vbsquare/beginning/begres/)

**RhinoBanga** · 16th October 2002

Isn't the resource editor built into VB or is that just the Enterprise Edition?

**Goldberg** · 16th October 2002

Yeah I believe it is built in to my Full version. So can you explain to a nooob how to work it?

Cheers

**RhinoBanga** · 16th October 2002

I don't use VB here at work but if no-one answers you by this evening then I'll tell you. It's very simple.

**graham.edmon** · 16th October 2002

1. go into your add-in manager and make sure you have the resource editor loaded and started.
2. in your project right click on project say add file... then click resource file, name and save resource file
3. double click on this resource file to open up resource editor
4. add in any pictures you want.
5. attach the module attached to this post and include it in your project
6. to set a picture box to a resource do the following

Set Picture1.Picture = LoadPictureResource("101", "Custom")

where first parameter is the resource ID and the second is the resource type.

thats it really...