New command

[VBlee]

ok i have a button 'New' when they click it i want it to make the picture go blank and then reset where they may of saved there last image e.g. if they did an image, saved it and now want to start a new it will wipe the picture and wipe were the quick save is to so if they saved the new image by using ctrl + S it wont overwrite there last. Hope that is clear.

[Mark Gambo]

ok i have a button 'New' when they click it i want it to make the picture go blank and then reset where they may of saved there last image e.g. if they did an image, saved it and now want to start a new it will wipe the picture and wipe were the quick save is to so if they saved the new image by using ctrl + S it wont overwrite there last. Hope that is clear.

It would be a much easier to figure out what you want to do if you posted your code.

[VBlee]

Theres to much, picture is called picCanvas, they can draw on it using bucket tool, pencil, brush etc... they can load and save images to save image i use...

Private Sub SaveAs_Click()
 
   With CommonDialog1
        .CancelError = True
        .DialogTitle = "Save As"
        .Filter = "Windows bitmap files (*.bmp)|*.bmp"
        .ShowSave
        picCanvas.Picture = picCanvas.Image
    End With
    
        SavePicture picCanvas.Picture, CommonDialog1.FileName
End Sub

what would be good is when they click New then it will erase the last image and the file name so when on the new image they click the save image it wont overwrite there last image but ask them to save it somewhere

[RhinoBull]

ok i have a button 'New' when they click it i want it to make the picture go blank ...

To reset picture in the picturebox use this:

Private Sub btnNew_Click()
    Set Picture1.Picture = Nothing
End Sub

[Keithuk]

'Clear Picture
picCanvas.Cls
 
'To stop them overwriting an existing file use
CommonDialog1.Flags = cdlOFNOverwritePrompt Or cdlOFNPathMustExist

[RhinoBull]

'Clear image/Picture
picCanvas.Cls

That would only clear Image - not Picture. Picture is an object so it has to be set to Nothing in order to clear it.

[Keithuk]

I know I've changed it since.

[Mark Gambo]

Theres to much, picture is called picCanvas, they can draw on it using bucket tool, pencil, brush etc... they can load and save images to save image i use...

Private Sub SaveAs_Click()
 
   With CommonDialog1
        .CancelError = True
        .DialogTitle = "Save As"
        .Filter = "Windows bitmap files (*.bmp)|*.bmp"
        .ShowSave
        picCanvas.Picture = picCanvas.Image
    End With
    
        SavePicture picCanvas.Picture, CommonDialog1.FileName
End Sub

what would be good is when they click New then it will erase the last image and the file name so when on the new image they click the save image it wont overwrite there last image but ask them to save it somewhere

To erase a picture from a Picturebox:

picCanvas.Picture = Nothing

If you want to reset the location that the file is to be resaved you can just use:

.FileName ="C\*.*"

But You can just check to see if the file exists before you save it:

Function FileExists(FileName As String) As Boolean
    On Error GoTo ErrorHandler
    ' get the attributes and ensure that it isn't a directory
    FileExists = (GetAttr(FileName) And vbDirectory) = 0
ErrorHandler:
    ' if an error occurs, this function returns False
End Function

If it exists just append a number or a letter to the file name and try again.

[Keithuk]

To erase a picture from a Picturebox:
But You can just check to see if the file exists before you save it:

Why bother, he is using a CommonDialog so.

CommonDialog1.Flags = cdlOFNOverwritePrompt

That will tell you if the file exists.

[VBlee]

Thank you all for posting, will try them all to see if i can get it going.

[RhinoBull]

I know I've changed it since.

I noticed that ... but you left Picture instead of Image ...

[Keithuk]

I know VBlee was talking about an Image so I added Picture/Image and posted it. Then I thought you can't Cls an Image but you have posted straight after. So you could use.

Set Image1.Picture = Nothing
'or
Image1.Picture = LoadPicture("")

[VBlee]

none of these work, every time i load a pictue and click new it makes the canvas blank but is i was to draw sommert n save on there it would then overwrite the file i had before.

[RhinoBull]

It will overwrite if you won't specify new file name...

[VBlee]

so how would i set the file name as untitled or something like that as when i have tried as i am unsure of how to put about the filename function it went wrong.

[RhinoBull]

Keithuk already showed you that in his replies (posts #5 and #9).

[VBlee]

hmmm, when i have loaded one and then created a new and pressed save it still comes up with the old file name, and then if i click cancel it says i have an error on this line...

SavePicture picCanvas.Picture, CommonDialog1.FileName

[RhinoBull]

If you hit the Cancel button on your CommonDialog then FileName becomes invalid and therfore SavePicture generates error...
You may need to set CancelError = True and also create some basic error handler. Tons of samples are available throughout the forum.

[RhinoBull]

In case you can't find here is general idea:

Private Sub Command1_Click()
 
On Error GoTo ErrHandler
 
    With CommonDialog1
        '...
        .CancelError = True
        '...
    End With
    
    Exit Sub
    
ErrHandler:
 
    'resume or exit procedure - your choice
    Resume Next
 
End Sub

[VBlee]

silly me... i did have the CancelError = True but i forgot to put what happens if theres an error so it crashed... fixed that now

[Keithuk]

none of these work, every time i load a pictue and click new it makes the canvas blank but is i was to draw sommert n save on there it would then overwrite the file i had before.

This is why I told you to use

CommonDialog1.Flags = cdlOFNOverwritePrompt

This will tell you if the file exists and do you want to overwrite.