Display pictures using a listbox?

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I'm making a Windows form which allows people to select a film from different genres. Now i've used list boxs to display the list of films and genres. When a user selects a genre, the films from that genre are displayed in another list box. Now what I want is for a picture to be displayed in a picture box when the user selects a film from the listbox. I've done this for displaying film information, but im not sure how to do this for pictures.

Posted 15-Feb-11 11:10am

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Nish Nishant · Answer 1 · 2011-02-15T11:13:00

Solution 1

Handle the ListBox's SelectedIndexChanged event and update the PictureBox according to the new selection.

Posted 15-Feb-11 11:13am

Nish Nishant

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 15-Feb-11 17:18pm

That's good, my 5, but I already gave more detailed answer before (see the reference in my new Answer on this page).
--SA

Nish Nishant 15-Feb-11 17:20pm

Yeah but that's for WPF. The OP's using Winforms I believe. Similar concepts though. With WPF I would recommend MVVM/binding approach with minimal code-behind.

programmer1234 15-Feb-11 17:52pm

How do I do that?

Nish Nishant 16-Feb-11 8:28am

See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.listbox.selectedindexchanged.aspx

Espen Harlinn 16-Feb-11 15:14pm

Nice and simple, my 5

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 2 · 2011-02-15T11:17:00

Solution 2

I've already answered the similar question in a very detailed manner, please see my code:

Displaying an image from a list box[^].

The answer is about WPF, but System.Windows.Forms implementation is nearly identical.

—SAKryukov

Posted 15-Feb-11 11:17am

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Updated 15-Feb-11 11:29am

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Theingi Win · Answer 3 · 2011-02-15T14:37:00

I want to show sample of my application

First I create one comboBox(comboBox1)and pictureBox(pictureBox1)
In comboBox1 have following 4 items
Blue hills
Sunset
Water lilies
Winter
And then write following code in comboBox1_SelectedIndexChanged event

C#

private void comboBox1_SelectedIndexChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
      {
          string filepath = @"C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\My Pictures\Sample Pictures\" + comboBox1.SelectedItem.ToString().Trim() + ".jpg";
          if(File.Exists(filepath)){
          pictureBox1.ImageLocation = filepath;
          pictureBox1.Load(filepath);
          pictureBox1.Update();
          pictureBox1.Refresh();
          pictureBox1.Visible = true;
          }
      }

When started i make pictureBox1's visible is false.

Maybe helpful

Theingi Win