picture box

English

Noun

picture box (plural picture boxes)

1. (computing, graphical user interface) A user interface control for displaying an image.
   • 1998, Mike Collins, Windows NT infrastructure design, page 325:

     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).

   • 2004, Kate Gregory, Microsoft Visual C++ .NET 2003: kick start, page 65:

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