This object allows displaying pictures stored in files, which may or may not belong to an application. A Picture can be freely resized, but rotation and animation are only effective when working with a metafile converted to a symbol. The following file formats are supported: Bitmap (.bmp), Graphics Interchange Format (.gif), Joint Photographic Experts Group (.jpg), ICO File Format (.ico), Windows Metafile (.wmf), Enhanced Metafile (.emf), Portable Network Graphics (.png), and Tagged Image File Format (.tif). To use this object, follow these procedures:

1.Select the Picture option on the toolbar of a Screen.

2.Click a Screen to create this object's origin vertex and drag the mouse pointer diagonally to its final vertex.

3.E3 Studio opens a dialog box to select an image file, according to the next figure.

Selecting an image file

4.Select a file and click Open to insert that picture on this Screen.