Why can not I format. png

[1izumrud]

:sad: Hi, I'm trying to do some image format. PNG because it weighs less and looks more beautiful but that's a problem. I changed the code to Eclipse, but still gives an error when compiling, such as can not find a picture GUI, it only changed the way it should be. help. changed the code in this section.
```
mMain.picInventory.Picture = LoadPicture(App.Path & "\data files\graphics\gui\main\inventory.jpg")
    frmMain.picCharacter.Picture = LoadPicture(App.Path & "\data files\graphics\gui\main\character.jpg")
    frmMain.picSpells.Picture = LoadPicture(App.Path & "\data files\graphics\gui\main\skills.jpg")
    frmMain.picOptions.Picture = LoadPicture(App.Path & "\data files\graphics\gui\main\options.jpg")
    frmMain.picParty.Picture = LoadPicture(App.Path & "\data files\graphics\gui\main\party.jpg")
    frmMain.picItemDesc.Picture = LoadPicture(App.Path & "\data files\graphics\gui\main\description_item.jpg")

```  :mad: but it did not help

[Baron]

the .LoadPicture can not be used with .png

to use .png must write a lot more code.

[1izumrud]

but this code is here?

[Baron]

yes but VB6 is natively incompatible with .png

VB6 + PNG =  :mad:

[1izumrud]

then what is the best option to use the format? Hello from Russia
:P just a jpg and bmp smeared

[Baron]

No good tutorial for doing so.

Rewrite the client in another computer language was my solution.

[1izumrud]

oh have to leave the jpg. although it weighs a lot

[Baron]

.jpg is smaller than .png most the time.

.png includes alpha and has perfect colours, jpg does not. .png will be bigger.

[RyokuHasu]

if you use .jpg you image quality will go down a shit-ton

I would suggest using 24 bit .bmp  Yes its LARGE uncompressed image files but you get 100% of the quality, AND its native to VB6\.

VB6 + .bmp =  :star: :cheesy: :star:

[Godlord]

The reason why PNG isn't supported, is not because VB6 doesn't support it, but rather that WinAPI, and more specifically GDI doesn't offer native support for PNG. Just use [libpng](http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html), if you want to be able to load and store PNG-images, like everyone else does.

Yours faithfully
  S.J.R. van Schaik.