I got a good one for all of you avid coders out there...

[Daniel_Christie]

I have a transpearent form that has a picture image.
I had a timer that will change the form's image at appropriate times.

If I make an exe of the code, only the form's picture I set at design time is included, the other two images are not.

This is the code I used to set the form's picture to other pictures:
Me.Picture = LoadPicture("C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\NTLocked.jpg")

'as you can see, I am using a path to the images, I know there must be a better way.

How can I keep all three image files inside the EXE ?

I appreciate any time and efforts,
Daniel Christie

[LAURENS]

Put three invisible image controls (preferably as an array) on your form with the desired images in them.

In your timer event put something like this

private sub Timer1_Timer
static intIndex as integer

'This makes the app cycle through the images
intIndex = Mod(intIndex + 1, 3)

Me.picture = imgImage(intIndex).Picture
Me.Refresh

end sub

(This is untested code, I typed it straight in here)
That should do it I guess.

[mlewis]

Use the resource manager in VB. Add the pics to a resource file and use GetPicture etc to load them up.

(see MSDN for exact details)

[LAURENS]

Yes, MLewis's suggestion is better, but I wasn't sure if Daniel_Christie had the Professional Edition or better. I was told that only those versions had a resource manager.

[mlewis]

Nah, go to Microsoft's web site and you can download the resource manager, class builder, all kinds of stuff for learning edition/academic edition/etc and it works fine.

[Daniel_Christie]

I am running VB5 Enterprise Edition.

Daniel Christie