1. Reading from File & Picture Boxes
Dr. John Abraham
Professor
UTPA

2. Read Text File Imports System.io Private input As FileStream
Private fileReader As StreamReader
input = New FileStream("carddeck.txt", FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read)
fileReader = New streamReader(input)
Dim cards(0 To 52) As String
inputData = fileReader.ReadLine()
cards = inputData.Split(","c)

3. Demo Read Program
Note that cards(0) is blank.

4. Picture boxes Back Color Choose a back color
Or a Background Image for the form
Create a pictureBox

5. Picture Box Choose the pictureBox for the toolBox Change the Name
Add an Image (picture) from the the file
As in the Example Program

6. Adding picture at Runtime
Dim PictureName As String
Dim pictBox As PictureBox
Dim offset As Integer = 5
PictureName = InputBox("What is the Name of the Picture?", "Picture")
PictureName = "C:\vb2008\2008addPictures\" + PictureName
pictBox = New PictureBox
Controls.Add(pictBox)
pictBox.BringToFront()
pictBox.Image = Image.FromFile(PictureName)

7. Adding additional pictures
Need to move the offsets top and left
pictBox.Top = offset
pictBox.Width = 100
pictBox.Height = 100
pictBox.Left = offset
offset = offset + 10
Repeat the steps from the prev slide.

8. Demo the program here.