make new picturebox with button

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hey guys,

i am making my GUI/Virtual Machine and i need to know how to create a new picture box with the press of a button. i am making my desktop and i need to make picture boxes. i need to do a right click and pop up my menu(which i know how to do) and then i click on new\text editor and then it makes a new picture box and then i can double click on it and it will open up my form(lets just say form2 for now). and how would i keep data within that image? i have a vague idea but no 100% sure.

could you please answer with the information that i have given you.

Posted 12-Apr-12 0:37am

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Dave Kreskowiak · Answer 1 · 2012-04-12T03:45:00

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I hope you're not adding dozens of these to your form. The more controls you add, the slower your form is to repaint.

Dim newPicBox As New PictureBox()
newPicBox.Location = ...
newPicBox.Size = ...
Me.Controls.Add(newPicBox)

Posted 12-Apr-12 3:45am

Dave Kreskowiak

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Member 8378691 12-Apr-12 21:22pm

im making my operating system GUI and i need to figure out how to add the icon of a text file, but i want multiple icons and then i will assign a value to each of them

Dave Kreskowiak 12-Apr-12 23:23pm

A picturebox for every file is not the way to do this. Look at the ListView control instead.