*resolved* HELPPPPPP How can I add images to my program?

[MrPolite]

any way to do this besides using an image list? I have about 200 SMALL pictures that I need to add to my program and the stupid image list doesnt let me to select them all at once.... it would take a year to add them all
How could I add those images? (I want them to be included in the exe file, or possibly in a single resource file that can be used by my app, but I have no idea how to do this)(

[DevGrp]

Yes use a resource file. Cant give you an an example now, since my workstation is fried. I lost all my work that I've been working on for the last year and a half. I'm just starting to recover

[Edneeis]

Damn that sucks DevGrp! You have to build the ResourceMaker application from the samples so you have a Resource Editor. Then you just add things to it and save as a file. Then include that file in your project. You can retrieve objects from it via the ResourceManager object.

http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...hreadid=169258
http://www.vbcity.com/forums/topic.asp?tid=7503
http://www.vbcity.com/forums/topic.asp?tid=17412

If you are still stuck then let me know and I'll do up a sample.

[MrPolite]

hmm I dont get it, what's that "ResourceMaker" that you're talking about? sounds like those posts will tell me how to read a resource, but can you tell me how to make one first?

DevGrp, sorry to hear about that, loosing data really sucks. Was it your programs that you lost?

[DevGrp]

Yeah it does suck. Now I'm on a strict backup schedule.

[MrPolite]

Originally posted by DevGrp
Yeah it does suck. Now I'm on a strict backup schedule.

I've lost data many times... but most of the times they were worthless, hehe

anyways... I made a little program that makes resx files.. I added a series of images in the file and I can see them as a table in VS. I hope I can get it to work now


edit: IF THIS WORKS, should I change the Build Action for the resx file to "compile"? or should I leave it as Embedded Resource?


edit#2 hehe how do I get this to work!! the thing is that I DONT know the name of each resource in the resource file. So what I want to do is to load all the images that are in the resource file. I've added the resx file to my project, is this how I load it?

Dim rm As New ResourceManager("MyApp.MyResStrings", System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly())


what should I do to load the images?

[MrPolite]

umm I made a resx file and then converted it to a resource file. I still dont know how I cant load the images without knowing the field names

[Edneeis]

Why don't you know the fieldnames?

[PT Exorcist]

well..create a folder called pictures(just to not mess up all your project) then drag and drop ALL pictures to that folder and there is somewhere a option that will embedded them in the .EXE..hope this helps
edit: omg i suck, now i see that this already had been talked about..i have somewhere a function in VB.NET which gets a resource ill look up for it wait some min plz
edit2: hope this helps,

Private Function GetResource(ByVal filename As String) As System.IO.Stream
        Dim oAssembly As Reflection.Assembly = MyClass.GetType.Assembly
        Dim sFiles() As String
        Dim sFile As String
        ' prefix filename with namespace
        filename = oAssembly.GetName.Name & "." & filename
        ' get a list of all embeded files
        sFiles = oAssembly.GetManifestResourceNames()
        ' loop through each file
        For Each sFile In sFiles
            ' found the file? return the stream
            If sFile = filename Then
                Return oAssembly.GetManifestResourceStream(sFile)
            End If
        Next
    End Function

[MrPolite]

hmm I couldnt do much with yuor code pt exorcist, but thanks anyways.

now lets say I force myself to know the field names now what? how can I get the resources?because I tried it and it didnt work. The resource that I have is called tmp.resources and here's what I did:

Dim rm As New ResourceManager("tmp", System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly())
        Dim bmp As Bitmap = CType(rm.GetObject("what", Globalization.CultureInfo.CurrentCulture), Bitmap)
        picturebox1.image = bmp

it stops on the second line ,and here's the error:

An unhandled exception of type 'System.Resources.MissingManifestResourceException' occurred in mscorlib.dll

Additional information: Could not find any resources appropriate for the specified culture (or the neutral culture) in the given assembly. Make sure "tmp.resources" was correctly embedded or linked into assembly "WindowsApplication36".
baseName: tmp locationInfo: <null> resource file name: tmp.resources assembly: WindowsApplication36, Version=1.0.1198.19709, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null

[Edneeis]

The basename of the resource should be the namespace plus the filename of the resource. Also it seems to work more with .resources files instead of .resx.

Dim rm As New ResourceManager("MyNamespace.MyEbeddedFilename", System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly())
        Dim bmp As Bitmap = CType(rm.GetObject("what", Globalization.CultureInfo.CurrentCulture), Bitmap)
        picturebox1.image = bmp

I have attached an example.

[MrPolite]

I changed the first line and it worked thanks alot! I wish there was a way to get all the resources without having their field names, but sounds like there isn't. Oh well...

[Pirate]

Originally posted by DevGrp
Yes use a resource file. Cant give you an an example now, since my workstation is fried. I lost all my work that I've been working on for the last year and a half. I'm just starting to recover

Sorry to hear that DevGrp . I know how you feel now .Use DataFinal 2.0 (I think I have the final version) to recover all of your lost data . If you need it just let me know .

[MrPolite]

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