I see some potential problems.
The user of the program might have the images in a different folder or drive.
Or they might not have any image files.
Are you going to provide the image files to the user and do a automatic install?
The user can also sort or move files, so an index (position) search could return the wrong file.
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Jim Cone
Portland, Oregon USA




"Atishoo"
wrote in message
Thanks
I could do that but with over 4000 images its gonna be impractical I just
need a way to reference the first item in a folder or the third or twenteeth
etc

"Jacob Skaria" wrote:

Hi "Atishoo"

1. Insert a new sheet and name 'PicIndex'
2. Enter the numbers in ColA and its corresponding image name in ColB
starting from row1. Name the range as 'PicList'
3. Use the below code

Dim picPicture As IPictureDisp
Dim strPath as String
Dim strFile As Variant
On Error Resume Next
strPath = "c:\windows\mydocuments\newfolder\"
strFile = Application.VLookup(CInt(TextBox1.Value), Range("piclist"), 2,
False)
Set picPicture = stdole.StdFunctions.LoadPicture(strPath & strFile & ".jpg")
UserForm1.Image1.Picture = picPicture
UserForm1.Show


4. If you dont name the range then refer the full range like
Sheets("PicIndex").Range("A1:B100") in the VLOOKUP formula.

Try and feedback

If this post helps click Yes
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Jacob Skaria


"Atishoo" wrote:

I am wanting to display a variable image in a user form dependant
alphebetically on a number selected in a text box (so if textbox1.value=1
then load picture apple.jpg, if 2 banana.jpg etc I cant just list all the
images as there are going to be somewhere in the region of 4000 total images
in the target folder.

any ideas


cyrrently have it set to just display a sigle image as below.
Dim picPicture As IPictureDisp
Set picPicture =
stdole.StdFunctions.LoadPicture("c:\windows\mydocu ments\newfolder\apple.jpg")

UserForm1.Image1.Picture = picPicture

UserForm1.Show