Resizing a picture

[Trevor Ross]

Am using VB5. Have different sized picture files which I want to load into
a PictureBox control. I want to resize the pictures before loading so that
they are all the same size on the screen. Have fiddled about with ScaleMode
and PaintPicture but nothing I do has any effect on the eventual size of
the picture loaded. The picture box is larger than any of the graphics in
their original size.

Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.

Trevor Ross

[Mike D Sutton]

> Am using VB5. Have different sized picture files which I want to load into
> a PictureBox control. I want to resize the pictures before loading so that
> they are all the same size on the screen. Have fiddled about with
ScaleMode
> and PaintPicture but nothing I do has any effect on the eventual size of
> the picture loaded. The picture box is larger than any of the graphics in
> their original size.

Have a look at the stretchBlt() API call. Also keep the scale modes at 3
(vbPixels) and make sure the AutoRedraw property is set to true.
Hope this helps,

Mike


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