Form Load

[Bobbo70]

Every time I call LoadPicture or the property PaintPicture in the sub Form_Load the picture doesn't appear at all. I make trace to find what happen the program go right and read without error and the picture doesn't appear.

[Static]

Move it to the Form_Paint procedure

[HeSaidJoe]

use Form Activate

In form load things are not loaded, they are loading ....

[Chris]

I think put into the Form_Paint procedure is better. Since the Form_Activate will only fire when the Form is loaded. But the Form_Paint is a bit different from the

Form_Activate. Whereby, when there is a change in the form windows, the Form_Paint event will be fire.

regards,
Chris

[YoungBuck]

Bobbo,

I wouldn't suggest using LoadPicture in the Form_Paint event, else you will tie up alot of memory. I would do something like this...

Dim iPic As IPictureDisp

Private Sub Form_Load()
 Set iPic = LoadPicture("C:\Windows\Bubbles.bmp") ' Load the picture
End Sub

Private Sub Form_Paint()
 Me.PaintPicture iPic, 0, 0 ' Show the picture
End Sub

Private Sub Form_Unload(Cancel As Integer)
 Set iPic = Nothing 'free memory
End Sub

Also just to clarify the Form_Activate is fired every time the form regains the focus, not just when the form is loaded.

Not sure if it'll help, but you may want to set the Form's AutoRedraw property to True.