Loading Bitmaps into variables to use with BitBlt

[AaronL]

Hello,

I need help with loading bitmaps into variables to be later used as sprites with BitBlt. Here was my original plan but I get an error 91:

Public thePicture as PictureBox

Public Sub LoadPictures()
     
thePicture.Picture = LoadPicture("c:\thepicture.bmp")

End Sub

Obviously I'm missing something because I get the object
variable error 91

Can someone tell me how to do this right please?

Thanks!

[Guido Geurs]

It works with:

Public thePicture As StdPicture

Public Sub LoadPictures()
   Set thePicture = LoadPicture("c:\thepicture.bmp")
End Sub

[AaronL]

I get user defined type not defined error with StdPicture, this is VB 6.0

[Guido Geurs]

I'm using VB6 SP6
You have to insert the reference "OLE Automation" (see attached GIFs)