Computer Programming Concepts and Visual Basic David I. Schneider

2. Double-click on the picture box icon to place a picture box in the center of the
form. (The picture box icon is the second icon in the Toolbox. It contains a picture
of the sun shining over a desert.)
3. Enlarge the picture box.
4. Run the program. Nothing happens and nothing will, no matter what you do.
Although picture boxes look like text boxes, you can’t type in them. However,
you can display text in them with statements discussed later in this section, you
can draw lines and circles in them with statements discussed in Section 9, and
you can insert pictures into them.
5. End the program and click the picture box to select it.
6. Activate the Properties window, and double-click on the Picture property. A
Load Picture dialog box appears. See Figure 2-11.
FIGURE 2-11 The Load Picture Dialog Box
7. Select the Windows folder and then double-click on one of the picture files.
Good candidates are Clouds.bmp, shown in Figure 2-12, and Setup.bmp. (Also,
the CD accompanying this textbook contains several picture files in the folder
Pictures.)
FIGURE 2-12 A Picture Box Filled with the Clouds.bmp Picture
8. Click on the picture box and press Del to remove the picture box.
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