PRB: Can't Set Picture Object Property from Add-In

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It is not possible to set a picture property from an Add-In as follows, where objFT is a FormTemplate object and VBInstance is the Application object passed to the Add-In:

   Set objFT = VBInstance.ActiveProject.ActiveForm
   Set objFT.Properties("Picture").Value = LoadPicture("MY.BMP")
				

The Value property in this case returns a Properties collection not a Picture object. You can use this Properties collection to examine and modify the properties of the object. The following code shows three different syntaxes for accessing the individual properties of a FormTemplate Picture property:

   Print objFT.Properties("Picture").Value("Handle").Value
   Print objFT.Properties("Picture")("Width")
   Print objFT.Properties!Picture!Height
				

The Picture object has Type, Handle, hPal, Height, and Width properties. It is not possible to set all of these properties because they are not all read/write properties. Therefore, you cannot construct a picture object by simply setting all of its properties, as you can a font object.