Question

I want to load 52 images (deck of cards) in gif format from my recourse folder into an Image[] in c#. Any ideas?

Thanks, Jon

Answer 1

You can read a Bitmap from a file like this;

  public static Bitmap GetBitmap( string filename )   {      Bitmap retBitmap = null;      string path = String.Concat( BitmapDir, filename );      if ( File.Exists( path ) )      {         try         {            retBitmap = new Bitmap( path, true );         }         catch { }      }      return retBitmap;   } 

You can get a list of files in a resource directory like this;

string[] files = Directory.GetFiles( BitmapDir, '*.gif' ); 

Just iterate through files calling GetBitmap( file ) and populate your array. BitmapDir is obviously the directory where your GIF files live.