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picture box

picture box noun: a user interface control for displaying an image.

Noun

picture box (plural picture boxes)

  1. A user interface control for displaying an image.
    • 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
    • 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

Forms of picture box

pluralpicture boxes

Questions about picture box

What does picture box mean?
Picture box means a user interface control for displaying an image.
What part of speech is picture box?
Picture box is a noun.
What is the plural of picture box?
The plural of picture box is picture boxes.

Words near picture box in the dictionary

  1. picture
  2. picture black
  3. picture blacks
  4. picture book
  5. picture books
  6. picture box
  7. picture boxes
  8. picture bride
  9. picture brides
  10. picture card
  11. picture cards

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