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

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 :p
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)(

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

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.

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?:D

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

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

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

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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:D 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? :(

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

Why don't you know the fieldnames?

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,

VB Code:

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

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

now lets say I force myself to know the field names:D 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:

VB Code:

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

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.

VB Code:

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.

I changed the first line and it worked:D:D 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...

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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

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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 .

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