Image Control at run-time

[rjlohan]

Heya,

I am trying to write a prog that will allow someone to construct a big picture by dragging some preset 'tiles' into place.

The problem I am having is that I would like for them to be able to drag more than one tile to the same place (so that I don't have to include a tile for every possible combination of layouts).

I have tried several methods, to no avail, my closest attempt being one that works, but buggers up colours when some tiles are dragged over others.

Is it possible to create an Image control at runtime and display it on the form?

Or does anyone have another suggestion?

Cheers.

[plenderj]

Yeah just give it an Index = 0 and then Load more with higher indices

[rjlohan]

I actually tried that, but the new controls never appeared.
I gave them pics, and set them to visible, and made sure they were in the right place, but they never showed up.
They were there, 'cause I got 'already loaded' errors when I was testing, but I couldn't see them, which kind of defeated the purpose...

I have found another way which was I think Controls.AddControl, and it will do for now, but it seemed weird that the Load method wouldn't work right?

[Bazza81]

Some things to consider:

[list=1][*]Your forms scalemode is in pixels not twips hence when placing new control it buggers up[*]Have you used Control.zOrder to bring the control to the top?[/list=1]

Hope this helps

[rjlohan]

The scalemode should only affect the location, and I am aware of that - I know the correct x,y to put controls, and yes I did use ZOrder.

It still didn't show up...?

[plenderj]

Try putting a picture in it

[rjlohan]

done and done.

I can't have pictures in it at design-time, since it doesn't exist. At run-time I use Picture=LoadPicture(filename).

Same result.