Visual Basic picture box question

[na_th_an]

I am using a picture box to simulate some kind of virtual screen where I can print things and draw stuff.

I have two questions:

1. How can I load a picture (BMP or whatever) from disk and draw it anywhere on the picture box? Can't it be done without GDI stuff?

2. Is there any way to have the whole thing scroll up a line just like in DOS where you print until you run out of screen?

Thanks

[toonski84]

picture box graphics are virtual crap. the only real way to get decent graphical control in vb is to use the directx sdk.

i've never known a way to change the area of a picturebox. however, this guy seems to have found a way by directly using the gdi:
http://www.rookscape.com/vbgaming/tutW.php

[na_th_an]

Thanks, I'll check it out.

Yeh, I know DX is better, but I am coding for a Win3.1 computer GEEz

[Fling-master]

Yeh, I know DX is better, but I am coding for a Win3.1 computer GEEz

Only one question comes to mind as I read this: WHY?

[na_th_an]

Yeh, I know DX is better, but I am coding for a Win3.1 computer GEEz

Only one question comes to mind as I read this: WHY?

Exactly for the same reason why 600 people in this forum are coding for DOS

LATER:

I've typed in this code. I have two picture boxes. I just want to bitblt one into another. I have used this code before, but this time all I get is a white square or garbage copied instead of the actual image. Can anybody help? What have I done wrong?

Code:

auxPicBox.Picture = LoadPicture(app.Path + "\Pic1.bmp")
    auxPicBox.Refresh
    
    iSrcDC = auxPicBox.hDC
    iDstDC = MyScreen.hDC
    
    'Copy part of source into destination a few times
    result% = BitBlt(iDstDC, 0, 0, auxPicBox.Height, auxPicBox.Width, iSrcDC, 0, 0, SRCCOPY)
    
    'Invoke refresh method so we can see changes
    MyScreen.Refresh

[na_th_an]

Hmmmm - A simple question... Am I the strangest man on earth? Why I have *never* got a proper answer to *any* question I've done in this forum? :rotfl:

[wildcard]

I doubt you don't get answer because you're strange ;-) More likely its that they actually good questions and there aren't many people experience with it to answer you..

[Neo]

You pose elite questions

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lol

[na_th_an]

hahahaha - Nope, the reason is that my questions are strange... I see nobody else coding a VB3 app for Windows 3.1 using GDI in the world

[Blitz]

I used to back in the win 3.1 days