help with picturebox in winform

[shay640]

hi

I want to show several pictures in my picturebox.
not simultaneously, but according to the user's choise in the listbox.
when I try to define the path of the pictures with:

try
            {
                pictureBox2.ImageLocation = @"\moskuitoPicture.jpg";

                if (AnimalsList.SelectedItem.ToString() == "moskuito")
                pictureBox2.Image = @"\moskuitoPicture.jpg";
            }
            catch
            {
                MessageBox.Show("failed to load image");
            }

I get an error " Cannot implicitly convert type 'string' to 'System.Drawing.Image"/
the pictures are at library called resources that I added to my project.

I defined a location in the designer, and I guess I do not have to pic any picture or initial picture.
can someone help?
I am using visual studio 2010 express framework 4 on windows 7.

thanx

[Access_Denied]

Please use code tags from now on. Also, the error code is a dead giveaway of what's wrong. It says it can't convert from String to Image. Well, if you went to the MSDN documentation page, you would see this:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...box.image.aspx

The Image property is indeed an Image object, not a string. So you have to find a method that takes a string and gets the image. Scroll down the documentation page and you find this:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/f6ak7was.aspx

That Load method will take a path and load the image.

I realize that the documentation doesn't have many examples, kind of like PHP does, but it is very good documentation, and you won't get anywhere without it.

[owdcoder83]

Hi Shay640 - I have just been playing around with a PictureBox on a Form so perhaps this may help you :-

I used a ComboBox to hold the names of the pictures which I may wish to display but this operate in much the same way as the the ListBox you mentioned. I have two method which I use - one to select the picture folder name which I require to show and a secon one to actually load the picture into the PictureBox. :-

                         private void PhotoNames_SelectedIndexChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
                           {
                               photofile = Convert.ToString(PhotoNames.SelectedItem);
                           }

                        private void pictureViewerToolStripMenuItem_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
                          {
                              photofile = pictureBox1.ImageLocation + photofile; 
                              pictureBox1.Visible = true; 
                              pictureBox1.Load(photofile);
                          }

PhotoNames is the name of the Combobox and has an event ' SelectedIndexChanged ' set up.

Hope this is of some help.

[shay640]

what is photofile? is it a string?
because I get an error
Error The name 'photofile' does not exist in the current context

[Access_Denied]

Literally two posts above your I posed the documentation for the Load function. Looking at that would tell you that yes, photofile is a String.

[owdcoder83]

Yes 'photofile is a string variable which is declared as a global variable at the start just inside the Class declaration eg:-

string photofile;