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How To Print the Contents of an ImageList Control to a Form

Article ID: 138537

Article Last Modified on 7/1/2004

Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0 Standard Edition
Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0 Professional Edition
Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0 32-Bit Enterprise Edition

This article was previously published under Q138537

SUMMARY

Visual Basic 4.0 introduces a new control called the ImageList control that holds an array of pictures or icons. Although this control is primarily used by other controls, such as the TreeView and Toolbar control, that require an image list control, it can be used to simply store pictures for your graphics methods. PaintPicture can be used with the image list control to paint a picture onto a picture box or form. The example in this article demonstrates how to use the image list control as a stand-alone image repository.

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Step-by-Step Example

To create a new application that prints all of the pictures in an image list control to the form, follow these steps:

Place a command button and image list control on a form.
Load the image list control with several images.

Add the following code to the Click event of the command button:

   Private Sub Command1_Click()
       Dim i As Integer
       AutoRedraw = True
       ScaleMode = vbPixels
       With ImageList1
           For i = 1 To .ListImages.Count
               PaintPicture .ListImages(i).Picture, 0, i * .ImageHeight
           Next i
       End With
   End Sub

Run the project, and click the command button.

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