Bart,
If you decide to use a grid of separate canvases, you can create the grid as
you would for any rectangle control using some basic considerations.
In order to clone controls, you first place a control of the right type on
your window,
say it is a canvas named c in the Property window, indexed to 0. The first
cloned control
will be index 1.
You can generate the new controls like this:
dim b as canvas
For i = 1 to NumControls - 1 // NumControls is the total number of controls
b = new c
Next
All the new controls are located directly on top of c(0). To create
a grid of NumColumns, in two steps for clarity, you would have code like
this after assigning values to NumColumns, VertSpacing, and HorizSpacing:
//Place them into rows:
row = 1
For i = 1 to NumControls - 1
If i >= row*NumColumns then
row = row + 1
End if
c(i).top = c(0).top + (row-1)*(c(0).height + VertSpacing)
Next
//Sort into the columns
For j = 0 to NumColumns - 1
For i = 0 to NumControls - 1 then
If (i-j) mod NumColumns = 0 then
c(i).left = c(0).left + (j)*(c(0).width + HorizSpacing)
End if
Next
Next
If flicker (on Windows) is a problem, just set c(0) to not visible, then
loop through at the end and set all to visible.
Jack
>I imagine I must make a dynamic array consisting of
> the number of images in a folder/directory, but how then do I display them
> in a grid fashion on the window?
>
> Any thoughts/ideas are graciously welcomed.
>
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