09-23-2014, 01:14 PM
Unfortunately, I have never dealt with .PCX graphics before. After doing some Googling, I was able to come across the following thread:
http://bytes.com/topic/c-sharp/answers/7...ing-bitmap
You probably don't want to read it, so in the thread they mention that the .NET framework does not support loading .PCX images by default (Which you've already discovered). The recommended library is dotnetfireball, which can be found here: http://dotnetfireball.codeplex.com/.
Here is a code snippet presented on the linked forum thread that uses dotnetfireball to load a *.pcx
[code2=vbnet]Dim imageToSet As Image = Nothing
Dim image As New Fireball.Drawing.FreeImage("C:\text.pcx")
imageToSet = image.GetBitmap()
PictureBox1.Image = imageToSet
' Note, this code was translated from C#.NET and may contain a few errors.[/code2]
http://bytes.com/topic/c-sharp/answers/7...ing-bitmap
You probably don't want to read it, so in the thread they mention that the .NET framework does not support loading .PCX images by default (Which you've already discovered). The recommended library is dotnetfireball, which can be found here: http://dotnetfireball.codeplex.com/.
Here is a code snippet presented on the linked forum thread that uses dotnetfireball to load a *.pcx
[code2=vbnet]Dim imageToSet As Image = Nothing
Dim image As New Fireball.Drawing.FreeImage("C:\text.pcx")
imageToSet = image.GetBitmap()
PictureBox1.Image = imageToSet
' Note, this code was translated from C#.NET and may contain a few errors.[/code2]