opening a graphic

i made this program that opens up graphics so u can see them without having to open up adobe or such other big programs ...

well, i manage to do this by opening the pic with the common dialog box once my program is loaded...

but my problem is how to open up my prog n load the picture ... get me?

i associated my program with bmp's but when i open a bmp up n my program starts up it doesn't load the graphic ... how do i go about doing this?

You say you already associated your program with BMP's, and when you open a BMP file, your program loads. Well, you're through with the hard part. Now the easy part!

In the opening routine (Form_Load, Sub Main or whatever) put this code:

Code:

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Dim sFileName As String
' We may get an error in the LoadPicture...
' Because sFileName may not be a supported file type (or maybe not even a filename)
' So, we use the nifty On Error Resume Next statement:
On Error Resume Next
sFileName = Trim(Command)
If Len(sFileName) > 0 Then

    ' If we get here, that means a BMP or whatever opened this program.
    ' sFileName is (maybe?) the filename of the BMP.
    ' You should add some code here which will open sFileName in your PictureBox. Example:

    Set MyPictureBox.Picture = LoadPicture(sFileName)

End If

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That should be it! Good luck with your program.

hey thanks for that code ... it worked well ... the only way it was easy for me to associate my program with bmp's was because i did it on my system ... i didn't do it by programming ... but like i said ... thanks for your help