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Hello fellow developers, been a long time since i was regular on this forum. I have a question....I want to use a nice interface to use with the visual basic applicvation..i don't want that old fashioned windows look....now if i give the form an image is there a way that the image stays like that when i maximize or change the size of the form window. Thanks in advance........I know this forum won't let me down.:)

Place an ImageBox(The Picture of a hill) on the Form


Private Sub Form_Load()
Image1.Height=Form1.Height
Image1.Width=Form1.Width
Image1.Top=0
Image1.Left=0
Image1.Picture=Loadpicture(App.Path & "\MyPic.bmp")
Image1.Stretch=True
End Sub

Private Sub Form_Resize()
Image1.Height=Form1.Height
Image1.Width=Form1.Width
Image1.Top=0
Image1.Left=0
End Sub

This is the most simplistic way without using APIs

That is fine. Now i have a very complex design and I am not using a single imagebox to put up all the images, infact there are many of those. I need to change pictures in all of those boxs.Thanks again for the reply.

You need to calculate size of pictureboxes according to the size of the form to make them resize dynamically

Thanks for the reply. I will try that out and lets see how that figures.

Just as a suggestion, you might try checking out these two tutorials on EliteVB:

Texturizing a form (http://www.elitevb.com/show.asp?id=1) (could be modified for pictures) Custom Regions (http://www.elitevb.com/show.asp?id=1d1) (could fit your form to the pictures)

Regards.

I might be missing something here, but why not just make an image box the size of the form?

It was suggested above, but as hand pointed out, the correct way (imo) to do UI improvemenmt is via the methods demonstrated on his site. (www.elitevb.com). Stretching a picturebox across the form isn't very flexible, and is, well.... IMO, wrong. :p