LoadPicture Method

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Applies To

fpSpread control

Description

Loads a picture from the specified file.

Syntax

CPicture CSpreadSheet::LoadPicture(LPCTSTR FileName, long PictType);

fpSpread.LoadPicture(ByVal FileName As String, ByVal PictType As PictureTypeConstants) As Picture

Parameters

The following parameters are available:

Parameter	Description
FileName	Path and file name of picture file to load
PictType	Graphic type of file to load Can be one of the following:
	Constant	Value	Description
	PictureTypeUnknown	0	The type is not known. The control tries to load the picture using each of the following types, if possible.
	PictureTypeBMP	1	Windows Bitmap graphic
	PictureTypeGIF	2	Graphics Interchange Format graphic
	PictureTypeJPEG	3	Joint Photographic Experts Group graphic
	PictureTypePNG	4	Portable Network Graphic graphic
	PictureTypeICO	5	Windows Icon graphic
	PictureTypeTIFF	6	Tagged Image File Format graphic
	PictureTypeTGA	7	Truevision Targa graphic
	PictureTypePCX	8	Paintbrush graphics file graphic
	PictureTypeWBMP	9	Wireless Bitmap Format graphic
	PictureTypeWMF	10	Windows Meta File graphic (also loads enhanced metafiles (EMF))
	PictureTypeJP2	11	JPEG 2000 graphic
	PictureTypeJPC	12	JPEG 2000 graphic

Remarks

Use this method to load a picture file.

If you use this method with a picture cell type and there are multiple sheets, set the Sheet property to specify the sheet with which you want to work.

Return Type

Picture in bitmap format

See Also

Creating Picture Cells

Sheet property

LoadPictureBuffer, LoadResPicture, SavePicture, SavePictureBuffer methods

DLL Correspondence

SSLoadPicture function