Help with Background Image!

[PascalPro]

I'm making a digital clock and I could not decide what background picture to use. I collected 4 and I want to be able to change the background from the program. For example using combobox to select the background picture. I experimented with code but could not come up with an answer. Can anyone help me?

I'm using 2005 VB Express Edition

[Xav]

What sort of control is displaying the clock? A label?

[chili5]

Can't you in the combo box specify items and use a click event for each item in the combo box?

Private Sub cmbBoxitem1 _Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, _
ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles cmbBoxitem1.Click
Me.background = "filename.ext"
End Sub

Couldn't you do that for each item in the combo box?

[Xav]

No. You cannot assign event handlers to individual items in a ComboBox, as far as I know. What you could do is store all the image in a resource file, and then load the picture based on the ComboBox's selected text.

[adora25]

You don't have to assign an event handler to each item in the combo box. Just trap the click event, like he said, and then do a select case on the the selected combo item, or else have the text in the combo actually be the filename. I'd post some code, but I don't have .NET installed at home, sorry.

[Xav]

Yeah - some simple string concatenation would be ideal - just grab the ComboBox's Text property, then put it inside a file name.