by Ishwar Purushotham (1 Submission)
Category: Custom Controls/Forms/Menus
Compatability: VB 6.0
Difficulty: Unknown Difficulty
Originally Published: Fri 24th December 2004
Date Added: Mon 8th February 2021
Rating: 
(1 Votes)
This code completly paints the screen with the picture file of your choice
API Declarations
'you need to have 2 picture boxes, if you want to load a picture
' on the screen
'==================== By Ishwar Purushotham =====================
Private Declare Function SetWindowPos Lib "user32" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal hWndInsertAfter As Long, ByVal x As Long, ByVal y As Long, ByVal cx As Long, ByVal cy As Long, ByVal wFlags As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function FindWindow Lib "user32" Alias "FindWindowA" (ByVal lpClassName As String, ByVal lpWindowName As String) As Long
Const SWP_HIDEWINDOW = &H80
Const SWP_SHOWWINDOW = &H40
Dim hTaskb As Long
VBcoders
Form1.Height = Screen.Height
Form1.Width = Screen.Width
' i have been having problems with the following code. try it,
'if it does not work, manually set properties
Form1.MaxButton = False
Form1.MinButton = False
Form1.WindowState = vbMaximized
'you can choose the Form's borderstyle to 0-none,
'if you want to paint the whole screen
'Hide the taskbar
hTaskb = FindWindow("Shell_traywnd", "")
Call SetWindowPos(hTaskb, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, SWP_HIDEWINDOW)
Picture1.AutoRedraw = True: Picture2.AutoRedraw = True
Picture1.AutoSize = True
Picture1.Appearance = 0: Picture2.Appearance = 0
Picture1.BorderStyle = 0: Picture2.BorderStyle = 0
With Picture1
.Picture = LoadPicture("The path of the file ")
Picture2.Width = Screen.Width
Picture2.Height = Screen.Height
Picture2.PaintPicture .Picture, 0, 0, Screen.Width, Screen.Height, 0, 0, .Width, .Height
End With
Picture2.Left = Form1.Left
Picture2.Top = Form1.Top
End Sub
Private Sub Form_Unload(Cancel As Integer)
'show the the taskbar
Call SetWindowPos(hTaskb, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, SWP_SHOWWINDOW)
End Sub
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