I want a background image/picture for my VB6 application that has 3
Forms (not the controls). How do I do that? I tried to set the
"Picture" property of the Form but that doesn't do the needful.

Please note that I want the background image for all the 3 Forms.

Thanks,

Arpan

Why not?

Then re-assign the pictures as you show the form's:

Form2.Picture = Me.Picture
Form2.Show

No idea why? If I am not mistaken, the image should cover all those
areas of the Form that aren't occupied by the different controls i.e.
the space in between the different controls should show the image but
that doesn't happen; the background image covers only a part of the
empty space.

Form2.Picture = Me.Picture
Tried this as well but that doesn't make any difference.

Any other suggestion?

Thanks,

Regards,

Arpan

Which part does it NOT cover ?

You probably want to stretch draw the Picture

Look at the Form.PaintPicture method

No,  the form's picture does not resize to fit the form. If you want the picture
to always fit the form, you might try an image control which has a stretch
property.

Private Sub Form_Load()
    Image1.Stretch = True
    Image1.Picture = LoadPicture("C:\My Documents\My Pictures\Iceberg.jpg")
End Sub

Private Sub Form_Resize()
    Image1.Move 0, 0, Me.ScaleWidth, Me.ScaleHeight
End Sub

David
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Right. It looks as though your image (.bmp, jpg or whatever) has a pixel
size that is smaller than the Form. In that case there are various options.
One way would be to set your Form's Autoredraw property to True and to paint
your image onto the Form at the appropriate size using the VB PaintPicture
method. Note that the pixel size of the Form's Autoredraw Image is the same
size as the client area of the Form (if it is a fixed size Form) and the
same size as the screen (800 x 600 or whatever) if it is a Sizeable Form.
However, you need to be aware that "stretching" images to a size that is
larger than their original pixel size will produce a poor quality picture.
You'd be far better off finding a suitable image that is as large as
possible (and preferably the same size or larger than the size of the
display).

Mike

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be enough to reciprocate.

Thanks to one & all for your inputs. I finally settled for David's
suggestion.

Regards,

Arpan

What do you mean by, "It doesn't do the needful". Setting the Picture
property of a Form (either at runtime or in the VB IDE) will cause that
picture to be displayed as the Form's background. Isn't that what you want?

.. . . or is it perhaps that it did indeed "do the needful" for the Form that
you specified but that you were hoping it would also automatically do it for
all three Forms? (Best if you can be as specific as possble whgen posting
querstions).

You can, of course, simply set each of the three Forms' Picture properties
to the same picture at design time. That, however, would result in the same
picture data being included three times in your compiled exe (which is
perhaps what you are trying to avoid). In that case just set one Picture
property at design time and then set the others to the same picture in code
at run time. There are all sorts of different ways of doing it, but you'll
need to tell us exactly what you want to do, and why.

Mike

Where is the background picture stored at? In a file? If so,
assign it to the form this way...

Set Form1.Picture =
LoadPicture("c:\Directory\Path\YourPicture.bmp")

Just do the above assignment to each form's Picture property. If
these assignment are "permanent" and non-changing, you could
assign the picture file to the Picture property at design time
using the Property Window.

Rick

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