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[timmy]

I am having a world of troubles, trying to declare an image as a constant. I've been trying something along the lines of:

Const imgon=frmgame.imglight(index).Picture=LoadPicture("lighton.gif")

Anyone have ideas of how I'd do this?

[P.T.A.M.]

A constant is something that can't change... Using a property of a control is therefore not possible (I think)... There might be another way for what you are trying to do... Why is this needed?
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[timmy]

I'm using it for a Lights Out program I have to make for my final program in class. I didn't want to have to have an array for when the lights were on, and one for when they were off, so I wanted to make an integer that equaled the on or off picture. I got it figured out though, thanks all.

[P.T.A.M.]

What did you do after all? If you read the file as binary and set that data as your constant you can afterwards write that data to a temp file and use that...
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[timmy]

I ended up having to add the following code to my program...

Public Const lighton = "lighton.gif"
Public strimage As String
strimage = App.Path & "\Pics\"

And I referred to it like this...

frmgame.imglight(x).Picture = LoadPicture(strimage & lighton)
I also had to use Tags

[P.T.A.M.]

Why did you need the tags? It works the way it is now...
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