PictureBox Wont Display

[Doogledude123]

I am creating lots of PictureBox's on my Form but they will not display. I have tried to debug it to see if its trying to show in the wrong location and stuff like that however everything seems to be correct. I have tried to call Show() but that did nothing either. I used to be experienced with VB quite a while ago but fell out and forget a lot of the stuff.

Yes, I am calling it with createPixels(0)

    Private Sub createPixels(layer As Integer)
        For i As Integer = 0 To 255
            For j As Integer = 0 To 255
                Dim pb As PictureBox = New PictureBox()
                Dim loc As Point = New Point()

                pb.Size = New Size(1, 1)
                pb.BackColor = Color.FromArgb(j, i, layer)

                loc.X = j + (1 + layer)
                loc.Y = 25 + i + (1 + layer)

                pb.Location = loc
                loc = Nothing
            Next
        Next
    End Sub

[tinstaafl]

It appears to me that, you're creating the pictureboxes but you're not adding them to the Controls collection of the form. Something like this should work:

Private Sub createPixels(layer As Integer)
    For i As Integer = 0 To 255
        For j As Integer = 0 To 255
            Dim pb As PictureBox = New PictureBox()
            Dim loc As Point = New Point()
            pb.Size = New Size(1, 1)
            pb.BackColor = Color.FromArgb(j, i, layer)
            loc.X = j + (1 + layer)
            loc.Y = 25 + i + (1 + layer)
            pb.Location = loc
            loc = Nothing
            Me.Controls.Add(pb)
        Next
    Next
End Sub

[Doogledude123]

Alright that did something, however when I try to run the Application it waits for a while then gives me this Error.

An unhandled exception of type 'System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception' occurred in System.Windows.Forms.dll

Additional information: Error creating window handle.

Any ideas?
Heres all my code.

Public Class Form1

    Private IsFormBeingDragged As Boolean = False
    Private MouseDownX As Integer
    Private MouseDownY As Integer

    Private Sub Form1_Load(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
        'For value As Integer = 0 To 255
        'createPixels(value)
        'Next
        createPixels(0)
    End Sub

    Private Sub Btn_Close_MouseClick(sender As Object, e As MouseEventArgs) Handles Btn_Close.MouseClick
        Me.Close()
    End Sub

    Private Sub Btn_Minimize_MouseClick(sender As Object, e As MouseEventArgs) Handles Btn_Minimize.MouseClick

    End Sub

    Private Sub Btn_Close_MouseEnter(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Btn_Close.MouseEnter
        Btn_Close.Image = My.Resources.close_h
    End Sub

    Private Sub Btn_Close_MouseLeave(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Btn_Close.MouseLeave
        Btn_Close.Image = My.Resources.close
    End Sub

    Private Sub MenuBar_MouseDown(sender As Object, e As MouseEventArgs) Handles MenuBar.MouseDown
        If e.Button = Windows.Forms.MouseButtons.Left Then
            IsFormBeingDragged = True
            MouseDownX = e.X
            MouseDownY = e.Y
        End If
    End Sub

    Private Sub MenuBar_MouseUp(sender As Object, e As MouseEventArgs) Handles MenuBar.MouseUp
        If e.Button = Windows.Forms.MouseButtons.Left Then
            IsFormBeingDragged = False
        End If
    End Sub

    Private Sub MenuBar_MouseMove(sender As Object, e As MouseEventArgs) Handles MenuBar.MouseMove
        If IsFormBeingDragged = True Then
            Dim tempPoint As Point = New Point()

            tempPoint.X = Me.Location.X + (e.X - MouseDownX)
            tempPoint.Y = Me.Location.Y + (e.Y - MouseDownY)

            Me.Location = tempPoint
            tempPoint = Nothing
        End If
    End Sub

    Private Sub Btn_Minimize_MouseEnter(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Btn_Minimize.MouseEnter
        Btn_Minimize.Image = My.Resources.minimize_h
    End Sub

    Private Sub Btn_Minimize_MouseLeave(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Btn_Minimize.MouseLeave
        Btn_Minimize.Image = My.Resources.minimize
    End Sub

    Private Sub createPixels(layer As Integer)
        For i As Integer = 0 To 255
            For j As Integer = 0 To 255
                Dim pb As PictureBox = New PictureBox()
                Dim loc As Point = New Point()

                pb.Size = New Size(1, 1)
                pb.BackColor = Color.FromArgb(j, i, layer)

                loc.X = j + (1 + layer)
                loc.Y = 25 + i + (1 + layer)

                pb.Location = loc
                pb.Show()
                loc = Nothing

                Me.Controls.Add(pb)
            Next
        Next
    End Sub
End Class

[Santanu.Das]

You can do your loops like

For i As Integer = 0 To 255
   For j As Integer = 0 To 255
        Dim pb As New PictureBox
        Dim loc As New Point
        Dim sz As New Size(1, 1)

        pb.Size = sz
        pb.BackColor = Color.FromArgb(j, i, layer)
        loc.X = j + (1 + layer)
        loc.Y = 25 + i + (1 + layer)
        pb.Location = loc
        pb.Show()
        loc = Nothing
        Me.Controls.Add(pb)
     Next
     Application.DoEvents()
  Next

But, Application.DoEvents() will be slowed down the loops. If you do not use this you couldn't display the picture boxes until the loops completed.

[Doogledude123]

Also causes the error.

[tinstaafl]

Your problem might be in how many pictureboxes you're adding. 65,536 pictureboxes is quite a lot. Perhaps you need to look at a different way to accomplish your task.

[Doogledude123]

I am basically trying to draw a grid with spaces in between that I can color each cell individually. Then I need to draw 255 more of them on a sort of z axis.

Probably easier to use Java and Open GL but I have always hated using Open GL and I hate doing graphics with Java.

[tinstaafl]

You should probably submit that as a new question and get some other ideas on that.

[Richard Mon]

Try to convert it the image to byte:

Public Function ConvertImageToByte(ByVal Img As Image) As Byte()

        Dim ms As MemoryStream = New MemoryStream()
        Img.Save(ms, Imaging.ImageFormat.Jpeg)
        Dim data(CInt(ms.Length)) As Byte
        ms.Position = 0

        ms.Read(data, 0, CInt(ms.Length))
        ms.Close()
        ms = Nothing
        ConvertImageToByte = data

End Function