17.11. Loading, Displaying and Scaling Images

Visual Basic’s multimedia capabilities include graphics, images, animations and video. Previous sections demonstrated vector-graphics capabilities; this section presents image manipulation. The application in Fig. 17.23 loads an Image (System.Drawing namespace), then allows the user to scale the Image to a specified width and height.

Figure 17.23. Image resizing.
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					' Fig. 17.23: FrmDisplayLogo.vb
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					' Displaying and resizing an image
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					Public Class FrmDisplayLogo
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					Private imageValue As Image
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					Private graphicsObject As Graphics
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					' load image and obtain Graphics object
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					Private Sub FrmDisplayLogo_Load(ByVal sender As Object, _
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					ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load
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					imageValue = Image.FromFile("images\Logo.gif") ...

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