PureBasic Forums - English

Thanks all, I get part of it, know what I was doing wrong, and made it work.
It's enough to get me started. I will have more stupid questions in the future.

Excuse me, I've been writing code my whole adult life, the last 20 years I've spent coding with MATLAB processing retinal images that led to 32 peer reviewed papers and 2 patents.

The code I posted was EXACTLY what the replier posted. It didn't work, I got a white screen. I didn't change a single ...

blank window.
What did I do wrong?
CompilerIf #PB_Compiler_OS = #PB_OS_Windows
imagefile.s = #PB_Compiler_Home + "examples\sources\Data\PureBasic.bmp"
CompilerElse
imagefile.s = #PB_Compiler_Home + "examples/sources/Data/PureBasic.bmp"
CompilerEndIf
If OpenWindow(0, 0, 0, 500, 300, "ImageGadget ...

It's somewhere in there, but I can't find it. I've looked. Over & over.
It's a simple question, can you provide a simple example?

I'm very new to this language. For right now, all I want to do is load an image and display it. I can't find a topic that is this rudimentary, so ... help?