Function to Tell an image is which?

[NoobieO.o]

Im trying to make my life for simple by making a function that returns which image it is.

[CODE] Private Sub WordWrapToolStripMenuItem_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles WordWrapToolStripMenuItem.Click
WordWrapToolStripMenuItem.Image = My.Resources.accept 'check mark (OK)
End Sub


Private Function GetCurrentImage(ByVal FromWhere As System.Windows.Forms.ToolStrip)
If FromWhere = My.Resources.accept Then
MyImage = My.Resource.accept
E

[jmcilhinney]

First up, if you've declare the FromWhere parameter as type TooStrip then you can't call the method and pass an Image. If you want to pass an Image to the method then you need to declare the parameter as type Image.

I'm not really sure what that code's for anyway. Why can't you just get the Image from the menu item's Image property? That IS the Image, so why go any further?

[NoobieO.o]

Ok I fixed up my code.

    Private Sub WordWrapToolStripMenuItem_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles WordWrapToolStripMenuItem.Click
        If GetCurrentImage(WordWrapToolStripMenuItem.Image) = "OK" Then
            MsgBox("OK")
        End If
    End Sub
    Private Function GetCurrentImage(ByVal FromWhere As Image)
        Dim MyImage As String = Nothing
        If FromWhere Is My.Resources.accept Then
            MyImage = "OK"
        Else
            MyImage = "NO"
        End If
        Return MyImage
    End Function

Im getting no return o.o

[jmcilhinney]

Your problem now is the fact that accessing My.Resources creates a new object each time. This code:

If My.Resources.MyImage Is My.Resources.MyImage Then
    MessageBox.Show("Same")
Else
    MessageBox.Show("Different")
End If

will display "Different", because two separate Image objects area created and compared. They may look the same, but one is not the other.

What you need to do is access My.Resources once and once only. Declare a member variable of type Image, access My.Resources and assign the result to that variable. Now use that variable everywhere in your code so that you are using the one Image object everywhere.