including a picture in a bitmapviewer before startup

what is the way to pre-load a bitmapviewer at program-startup with an image without loading it from file?

I use VB6. With a picturebox, you can simply at design-time load an image file, which will thereafter be included in your program. Can that be done with Aurigma?

Thanks, Kees

Might there be a way by using a VB6 picturebox as a picture store, and then copying the picture to a bitmapviewer in Form_load()?

For example, by setting a pointer to the picturebox.picture and use CopyMemory to transfer it to the bitmapviewer?

It is kind of important because I am distributing a lot of copies of my software to students, and I want to present them with as fool-proof as possible startup.

Thanks, Kees

No, the students do not modify the source.

I have made a program for scientific image analysis that is based on Aurigma. The idea is to collect three different microscopic images of a cluster of cells labeled with 2 different colors. I collect pictures:

1) illuminate with blue, detect 'blue' with a monochrome CCD camera with blue filter

2) illuminate green, detect 'green'

3) illuminate blue, but detect in green (i.e., this is a spectral 'bleed-through' image)

The colors show a very interesting property (called FRET) that allows us to directly calculate molecular interactions because they change the amount of bleedthrough. So my program calculates molecular interactions from a set of 3 images.

Quite different from your usual applications, not?

I'll be happy to tell you more, but perhaps of this forum because I have not seen other guys use Aurigma for scientific calculations.

best regards, Kees

still something seems to go wrong with the solution you suggested.

If I clone the picture that was just generated by your two lines, I get an unexpected error and am asked to contact Aurigma:

Private Sub cmdtest_Click()
    'get pic from picturebox
    bmvLut.Bitmap.Data.Picture = formPicStore.picGrayLut.Picture
    bmvLut.Bitmap.Data.ConvertTo24bppRgb
    set bmvStampLUT.Bitmap = bmvLut.Bitmap.Clone  <<-- error
End Sub

any ideas?

Kees

Edited by user Thursday, December 20, 2007 4:38:33 PM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Cloning from Loadfromfile routinely goes fine.

Best regards, Kees

(sorry for the delay in answering. I was abroad)