Getting a picture stored in the project given its name

Targets iOS
1

I have a bunch of pictures that will come along with the app. I have dragged a few (just testing now) into the project.

What I need to do is get access to a picture given its name. Is this possible?

2

You should be able to reference them directly:

Dim p As Picture = nameOfPicture

Or

g.DrawPicture(nameOfPicture, 0, 0)
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3

The problem is that I have the name of the picture as a String as part of the other data it goes with.

4

Write a Select Case statement in a helper method that takes the string as an input and returns a picture for each matching string using the syntax that Andrew recommended.

5

If you have many big pictures, the correct way to do this is using an Asset Catalog. The App store will automatically trim asset catalogs to make your app thinner on @2x / @3x devices.

Unfortunately Xojo doesn’t support creating an asset catalog, although it does create one for the app’s icon.

Took me a few years to understand how to create an asset catalog and use it, took 20 minutes to set up using AI the last time I needed it.

In Xojo you can copy all pictures to your app using a build step and then open them using SpecialFolder.Resource