drawing characters on picuturebox

how do i draw a character on a picturebox at a specified location (x,y) ?

anybody has the codes to do this please help?

Use the TextOut API call:

VB Code:

Private Declare Function TextOut Lib "gdi32" Alias "TextOutA" (ByVal hdc As Long, ByVal x As Long, ByVal y As Long, ByVal lpString As String, ByVal nCount As Long) As Long
 
TextOut Me.hDC, X-Value, Y-Value, "This is Text!", Len("This is Text!")

Thanks for the code.

but it only works when autoredraw is set to false.

i need to make the text part of the image in the picturebox so i could copy the entire picture into an imagebox.

i used picture1.picture = picture1.image
image1.picture = picture1.picture

can we make the text printed using textout api a permanent part of the picture ?

Use the same code.

Set autoredraw to TRUE
and after you use tha api, do a simple

picture1.refresh

and boom

Or you could use:

Picture1.Print Text$

To specify the location of the text use:
Picture1.CurrentX =
Picture1.CurrentY =

And be sure to set AutoRedraw = True