LoadPicture Command throwing error

RawlinsCross

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Good day,

I have a userform with 31 image controls (on for each day of the month of May) which populate with pictures from a folder that are all contain dates (again in May) in the name. I then extract the date from the filename and find the correct image control to place it in. The code works until I try to upload the picture into the image control - throws the error "Compile Error: Wrong number of arguments or invalid property assignment" - not sure what the problem is.


Code:
Private Sub LoadPicture()

Dim FileSys As FileSystemObject
Dim myFolder
Dim strFilename As String
Dim objFile As File
Dim PicDay As Long

'set path for files
Const myDir As String = "[URL="file://\\netapp6\tempstor\John"]\\netapp6\tempstor\John[/URL] Halfyard\Nickel Pictures\GIMP"

'set up filesys objects
Set FileSys = New FileSystemObject
Set myFolder = FileSys.GetFolder(myDir)

'go through tempstor and cycle through pictures
For Each objFile In myFolder.Files
    PicDay = Mid(objFile.Name, 15, 2)  'this returns the day of the month
    'each image control is labelled "Month1, Month2, Month3, etc)
    Me.Controls("Month" & PicDay).Picture = LoadPicture(myDir & Application.PathSeparator & objFile.Name)
Next objFile

Set FileSys = Nothing
Set myFolder = Nothing

End Sub
 

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Does it fail for all files or just a particular one? What format are they, and can you manually load them into the control(s)?
 
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The files are in *.jpeg files and yes, I can go into the properties of say "Month1" and under the Picture property load up any of the files. It appears none of the files are getting loaded.
(note, when I manually enter the picture the picture reads "(Bitmap)")
 
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Have you verified that objFile.Name is returning the correct value?
 
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Yes, the entire name (with the correction filename extension) reports out when I go a MsgBox. But I had to comment out the "LoadPicture" line to get this even to run. It's not a runtime error and throws an error on compiling.
 
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Just re-read your code - change the name of your routine to something other than LoadPicture! ;)
 
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okay, I would NOT have gotten that in a million years! And of course, it works like a charm when I renamed it "LoadImage". Nice lesson on 'key words'. Thanks!
 
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