how do i do it????????????

hi
ok ,,, i have a program, card designer,,, like buissenes cards and stuff, any way when i finish drawing and designing the card i have to save it,,, its ok,,but some times i have some pix in the card, all i want is how to save manu bitmaps in one file by code, and then restore them, and this file contains some text maybe and stuff, so how do i do it?????

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The best way you could do this would be to use the "SavePicture" command to store each individual bitmap... giving it an arbitary name and then attaching it to whatever you did.

For instance... If your card designer allowed you to add lines and boxes and image boxes etc then you would have to have a name for each control so you simply name the picture with that control.

What you end up with is a text file that would re-construct the design of your card and the graphics stored in a specific folder

Imagine this as your text file output :

Code:

---

[Box1]
Top=10
Left=10
Height=100
Width=200
Border=1
Image=images\Box1.bmp

[Line1]
Top=100
Left=10
Width=200
Thickness=5
Color=FF0000

[Text1]
Top=120
Left=10
Font=Arial
FontSize=20
Text=Company Name

---

(Note: Above stuff is just for example, you would have to include anything you specifically wanted to record in there as well)

Basicially when this file gets read back in it generated your card as if each item was placed on it and then uses the "LoadPicture" statment to get the image you saved out back into it.

Hope it helps

ok, thanx, but i did this alrerady, my designer allow me to drw boxes and lines, and i did the same thing to save them in a file, but the problem i want the bitmaps to be saved in the same file, but i can't,i have this idea, but i don't know how to apply it, if i can save every pic in a temp. file, then read every file and add it to string, then add all these string to a file, which also contains the data for the boxes and lines, then if i want to open it, i'll reverse the thing, read the file, and then put every bitmap in a temp. file, and....
what do u think?????
have any ideas in doing this??????
please help