Picture1(i) - Why does this need the (i)

Just because you otherwise would have to write down:
load picture(0)
load picture(1)
...
load picture(52)

It's a little bit more dynamic

Array is always starts from 0, if your array keep 52 elements, so the array index with start from 0 and ends with 51

I know the I is an array of 52 but why is it there?
Is there no part of this code that takes into consideration that there will be between 4 and 22 cards dealt during the game of blackjack?

I have 52 pictures but its dealing any 1 of those to any 1 of 22 picture boxes I need to know about.
Cheers for help so far.

The loop is just for loading the 52 cards in an array, which then can be used in your program

So what is picture1? Why cant it just be Picture(i)?

Check you components at your form, and see what's named "picture1". I guess one of the picture boxes....

Why not put all the pictures into a resource file?  Then load them as you need to display them.  In any case, "Picture1" or "Picture" or "FredsPics" or "MyPics" or "YoYoLokSeeDaGoGoPics" or whatever you want to call it.  That is your variable name.  It doesn't matter what you name it so long as you define it properly (in this case it looks like it is an array of picture objects).  Make sure you put the following at the begining of ever forms code (and modules code).

Option Explicit

That way it will force you to define all your variables and thus you would not be asking what Picture was because you could not compile your code until you defined it.

Did I already help you a bit on this subject?  Let me go look at my previous post.

No offence, but I'm getting the idea that you haven't got any programming experience (if I look also look at your other question) or perhaps programming experience but not in visual basic.
My suggestion: first start reading a book, tutorials, ... with an introduction to vb.

How about just telling me what this code does. Does is load 52 cards or does it deal 1 card to 1 picture box?

Can you first do a search for me what's the definition of Picture1 ?

Is it a visible object (fe listview, ...) , is it a custom object ?

To me it looks like all 52 cards are loaded into Picture1 because I was told that this code is what I needed to load my 52 pictures.

Definition. Well its a picture box control. Its defualt name is Picture 1. I'm trying to figure out why its a good idea to load 52 pictures into 1 picture box named Picture1 and is the loading Random. Theres 52 pictures in a file and the file name in the code uses (i) which is 52. I'm guessing my file names need to be Card 0 to Card 51.

I guess it's a better idea to generate a random number between 0 and 51 and load and show that file instead of loading all files..

i = Int((51 - 0 + 1) * Rnd + 0)
Picture1(i).Picture = "c:\somefile" & i & ".bmp"
Picture1(i).Tag = "card value" 'ie Jc or 4h

Ye I know that but can you just confirm that this code
i = Int((51 - 0 + 1) * Rnd + 0)
Picture1(i).Picture = "c:\somefile" & i & ".bmp"
Picture1(i).Tag = "card value" 'ie Jc or 4h

would only do 1 single picture box on my form please.

It would indead do only the picturbox, named "picturebox1"

No, I think that someone is recommending that you create an array of picture objects or an array of image objects.  Then this code is simply attempting to load each file (.BMP) into the array of images or pictures.  It doesn't have anything to do with displaying.  When you want to display one of the 52 cards you will have to assign an image from your image array into the actual picturebox control that you have placed on your form.

Cool thats what I thought and I was just making sure.

Cheers.

Nevertheless, I think your best solution is to put all your pictures into a resource file and load them from the resources rather then loading them into one big array of images.  For instance, you can download one of those Resource extractors for free (like ResHack or something).  Then you can extract all the Bitmaps from the Cards.dll file in your System32 directory.  ResHack will then create a seperate resource file from all of those images (actually it creates an .RC file that you need to compile into a .RES file).  Then you simply include the .RES file just like you include any Form or Module in VB.  Then you will use your VB resource functions to get the images you want to display directly from your resources rather then loading them from file.

Now, in the end if this is a product that you are selling you will probably want to draw your own card Bitmaps, but for the time being there isn't any problem using the ones that Microsoft provides in the Cards.DLL file.

Here....let me create a .RES for you from that Cards DLL file....hold up a sec....shouldn't take long.

Just to be complete let me add the displaying of the cards to that other little program that I gave you.  Hold up a bit....will take a few minutes.

Ok, check out this program.  It shuffles a deck and then displays a list of the shuffled cards in a listbox.  Whenever you select any card in the listbox it will draw the picture of that card in an image box on the form.  This should give you all you need to know to figure out how to write your blackjack game.  Hope it helps.

http://www.enlade.com/Samples/BlackJackTest-b.zip

Oh, and that other link to the cards resource file isn't good.  The cards resource need to be edited a little bit to get it to work with VB.  I did that minor editing and the real cards resource file is found in a subdirectory of the above zip file (BlackJackTest-b.zip).  Use that instead.

Oh, and also the Cards.DLL had the backs of the cards as well.  So resource images 53 through 65 are all the backs of the cards.  Resource images 66 through 74 are just other images that the Sol.EXE (solitare) needed to do other things (like make the Sun blink at you from the backs of the cards and show blank placeholders on the table where cards can be placed, etc.)  Still, you might want to make use of the 53 through 65 card backs so that your cards look nice when they are laying face down (like the dealers hidden card and the top of the deck).