Displaying Graphics

[Darrell Price]

I am trying to display a graphic (bitmap), using DDT, in the top center of the client area of a dialog box and I'm having no success. I have tried the CONTROL ADD GRAPHIC command with not-so-good results. Can someone throw a beginner a hint or two on how this is done?

Many thanks,
Darrell

[Russ Srole]

There's a couple of samples in your pbwin80\samples folder. Text3d.bas or Sine.bas should do the trick.

[Fred Buffington]

In addition to GRAPHIC (depending on what you are doing) you might also look
into CONTROL ADD IMAGE and IMAGEX.

BMPs can be placed in a resource file (name.PBR) and easily used.

program.rc
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M1 BITMAP MYBITMAP.BMP

compile the rc file into a .res then pbr file

program.bas
#compile exe
#resource "program.pbr"

FUNCTION PBMAIN() AS LONG
.
.
.
 DIALOG NEW..... to hDlg
 CONTROL ADD IMAGEX,hDLG,301,"M1",0,0,100,100
.
.
.

regarding using the graphic statements, did you use graphic attach before
using graphic bitmap load ? and perhaps a graphic redraw afterwards.

The control add graphic itself does not load a bitmap but rather sets up the
graphic area within a window (which can be a dialog). put your code in here
and it will be easier to help you get it going.

[Darrell Price]

Russ and Fred,

Problem solved. Thanks very much for your help. It is appreciated.

Darrell