picture box

noun

A user interface control for displaying an image.

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Meanings

nounpicture box (plural picture boxes)

plural picture boxes

  1. computingA user interface control for displaying an image.

    Displaying images on a form is very simple with a picture box. Just set the image property to a file on your hard drive.

    2004, Kate Gregory, Microsoft Visual C++ .NET 2003: kick start, page 65
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    Visual Basic has a picture box control in its toolbox, represented by a cactus (the same icon as is used by Developer Studio to represent a bitmap resource).

    1998, Mike Collins, Windows NT infrastructure design, page 325
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