How can I stretch picture to fit an option botton

[Kabyr]

I have a form in my application where options are displayed to the user in form of images.

I have created list of option buttons, set style to graphics and able to load pictures. My problem is that some pictures are either too big or too small to fit in the option boxes.

Can somebody help me on how to stretch the picture to fit the option box? just like in image box.

Thank you in advance.

[Guido Geurs]

the idea is to load the file in a picture var, resise it in a (invisible) picturebox, put the image in the clipboard and put the clipboard in the option button with=

You can change the size by changing paintpicture of picture1 AND the size of picture1.

Private Sub Command1_Click()
Dim oPic As StdPicture
   On Error GoTo Error_Open_File
   With CommonDialog1
      .CancelError = True
      .Filter = "GIF (*.gif)|*.gif|JPG (*.jpg)|*.jpg|BMP (*.bmp)|*.bmp|JPEG (*.JPEG)|*.JPEG"
      .InitDir = Environ$("USERPROFILE") & "\My Documents"
      .DialogTitle = "Open a file..."
      .ShowOpen
      Set oPic = LoadPicture(.FileName)
   End With
   On Error GoTo Error_Open_File
   With Picture1
      .Width = 1200 'change the size of the image canvas => picture in the optionbutton
      .Height = 1200 'change the size of the image canvas => picture in the optionbutton
      .AutoRedraw = True
      .PaintPicture oPic, 0, 0, 900, 900 'change the size of the image
       Clipboard.Clear
      Clipboard.SetData .Image, vbCFBitmap
   End With
   Option1.Picture = Clipboard.GetData(vbCFBitmap)
   Option1.Refresh
Exit Sub
Error_Open_File:
   MsgBox "There is an error opening the file"
End Sub

[Guido Geurs]

can also without clipboard=

   With Picture1
      .Width = 1200 'change the size of the image canvas => picture in the optionbutton
      .Height = 1200 'change the size of the image canvas => picture in the optionbutton
      .AutoRedraw = True
      .PaintPicture oPic, 0, 0, 900, 900 'change the size of the image
      Option1.Picture = .Image
   End With

[Kabyr]

Thanky ou GGEU for your brilliant idea. It was greately helpful.

I chose to apply the image directly without using the clipboard. That reduced the process time.

However, both procedures worked well.

Thank you once again and to all purus here. Happy coding.