I have a BUNCH of pictureboxes with pictures in them, each with just a little different name.. for instance.

paperred
paperblue
papergreen
paperorange

Now what im tryin to do it BitBlt then into a larger picture box as I need them. I tried to do it this way.. paraphrased

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dim colorn as string
if color=1 then colorn="red"
firstdc= "paper" & colorn & ".hDC"
bitblt carscreen.hDC, 0, 0, 50, 50, firstdc, 0, 0, SRCCOPY
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Now, I know everything works, cause I replaced firstdc with just paperred.hDC and it worked fine. How do I go about combining the string so the VB can recognize it as the actual paperred picture box and paperred.hDC im really confused and have been trying to get this to work for days.

Also I did this
firstdc= paperred.hDC
Please dont give me different ways to do this like making it one big picture box, I need to do it this way.. Thanks in advance