Last night I was asking how best to add a resource and was given this good advice
"By adding the image files to your resources, you can limit the code needed to display the image to something like this:
pbxCard.Image = Properties.Resources.HeartsQueen;"
But my issue I have now is that I wanted to fill these boxes with Random images chosen by an array.
In other words I want something like pbxCard1 to be the myDeck.cards[0].ToString + ".jpg" image.
By adding my images to the resources like I was told all my images which were named 1 and 2 and 3.jpg (etc.) get their names changed to _1 and _2 and _3 -- so I somehow need to get the number out of the array and then concatenate it to the end.
NOW I KNEW THIS wouldn't work -
pile1image1.Image = Properties.
Resources._ + mydeck.card[0].ToString;but it is in essence what I want to do -- can someone tell me how to do it?
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ALSO I cant do this:
string
image1 = "Properties.Resources._" + myDeck.cards[0];because when I try and place it into the pile1image1.Image = image1 line - it tells me that I cannot convert a string to an image.... help???
Todd VancePosted Jun 1, 2007, 1:11 PM
Is there anyway I could automate or iterate that process???
I feel like I am missing something here --- how could I CONCATENATE onto the Properties.Resources.image statement? Is that just NOT possible?
Because if I could, I could simply name the images 1,2,3,4 and then iterate through the array of 52 images -- ???
I tried to type cast using something like this:
string s = "Properties.Resources._" + i;
Image img = s as Image
pbx1.Image = img;
BUT GET THIS - Error 1 Cannot convert type 'string' to 'System.Drawing.Image' via a built-in conversion
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I can do what Scott suggested but am trying to learn the most efficient ways of programming and having to type out 52 statements manually seems terribly inefficient.
Scott LyslePosted May 30, 2007, 11:54 PM
Sure, you could create an array of images and populate each with one of the card images and then call them using a random number passed as the index value.
Image[] imgs = new Image[51];
imgs[0] = Properties.Resources.Spade2;
imgs[1] = Properties.Resources.Spade3;
imgs[2] = Properties.Resources.Spade4;
imgs[3] = Properties.Resources.Spade5; ...
picBox.Image = imgs[YourRandomNumber];