Saving Bitmaps

[tfeather]

I am writing a practice play diagrm utility, and am having problems understanding how to save the bitmap loaded into a Picture Box.

[wengang]

maybe not what you mean:

SavePicture Picture1.Picture, "C:\whatever.bmp"

??

[Hack]

One note on SavePicture...if you have a GIF file or a JPeg loaded into your Picture box, it will not be saved as a JPeg or GIF...it will be saved as a bitmap.

[tfeather]

Actually didn't know about SavePicture or LoadPicture. That does allow to save the bmp loaded into the PictureBox.

But when I save the image, any new items I placed on the image are not saved. I assume I am not really placing items on the bitmap itself.

I am looking for a cheap "home grown" solution to Annotate images (bitmaps). The document imaging tools that I have looked at LeadTools, etc. are too expensive.

Thanks for your help.

TF

[wengang]

If you BitBlt some new piece of image to the picture,
then change what I wrote to

SavePicture Picture1.Image, "C:\mypic.bmp"

[tfeather]

That would be it! Thanks.