Hello,

I've been looking around at different forum messages here but can't seem to find the answer I am looking for... ???

I need to extract (lack of a better word) the Picture of a box control and display it in a CStatic control using SetBitmap or SetIcon.

I placed the following code...

m_PictCtrl.SetBitmap((HBITMAP)boxItem.GetPicture().GetHandle());

... but all I get is the image displayed at full size but I can only see the center of the image. I can't seem to be able to have the image resized within the control. Might be a MFC functionality.

If I get the properties of a control with an image in it from the Resources, I get no image displayed. It seems I can only display images which were loaded from a file.

What am I missing? I hope you can point me in the right direction.

Thanks fro your help.

Rolando

Hi,

You could use the IPicture::Render() method to draw the image in your own HDC. E.g. call it from the WM_PAINT handle of your dialog.

I hope that helps,
Stoyan

This just lets you draw images without having to save them in temporary files first.

If you insist on using temporary files, try calling the IPicture::SaveAsFile method(). Another option is to query the IPicture object for the IPersistStream interface, and then call the IPersistStream::Save() method. This is how FlowChartX writes images when you call its SaveToFile method:

[code]
bool PersistenceHelper::savePicture(IPicture* picture)
{
     ULONG written = 0;
     if (picture)
     {
           ULARGE_INTEGER ulSize;
           CComQIPtr<IPersistStream> pPerStr = picture;
           pPerStr->GetSizeMax(&ulSize);

           stream->Write(&ulSize, sizeof(ulSize), &written);
           pPerStr->Save(stream, FALSE);
           return true;
     }
     ...
}
[/code]

So if the flowchart's SaveToFile and LoadFromFile methods save/load your images successfully, the code above should work fine.

Stoyan