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Picture Box scrollbars

Hello

I have a Windows form that I am displaying a bitmap within inside a picturebox, now this bitmap has some drawing I made , rectangles and text drawings, everything is ok.

but when this bitmap is large ( I mean too many drawing inside it) it does not fit inside the page so i need the user to scroll down to see more , I added a vscrollbar but what I do not know how to do is : how can I make it work , how can I make the image move down and up when the user clicks on the scrollbar

the image is contained inside a picturebox , the picturebox is made to fit the whole windows form which is an MDI Child.

any ideas ?

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Bob Learned

You might also want to think about a scrollable Panel control.

Bob

_TAD_

*NOT FOR POINTS*

I'd follow Bob's suggestion.

put a panel on your form and size it the way you want.

Then dynamically add a picturebox to that panel that contains your picture

<button click event>
PictureBox p;
panel2.AutoScroll = true;

// new picturebox
p = new PictureBox();

// set picture
p.Image = Image.FromFile(@"C:\temp\test.jpg");

// set size and location of picturebox
p.Location = new Point(10,10);
p.Size = new Size(p.Image.Width,p.Image.Height);

// add picturebox to scrolling panel
panel2.Controls.Add(p);