Turning Text into a Graphic?

[brandoom]

Is it possible to turn text into an image? What I want to do is overlay a picture on top of a DirectX game. Basically I want my own menu overlayed on top of a DirectX game. The easiest way to do this would be to turn a block of text into a graphic then just overlay that one graphic. For starters I read something in one of my books about using the Print method for displaying text in a picture box; but I don't see the Print method as one of the methods of a picture box. If I can do that, can I save what's in the picture box as a graphics file?

[KayJay]

Yes and Yes.

Private Sub Command1_Click()
Picture1.ScaleMode = vbPixels
Picture1.Height = 150
Picture1.Width = 250
Picture1.AutoRedraw = True
 
 
Picture1.Print "Hello and Hi"
Picture1.Print
Picture1.Print "Print this paragraph onto a PicBox and save"
Picture1.Print "it as a Bitmap image. This way, the text in this"
Picture1.Print "paragraph is not available for editing, except maybe"
Picture1.Print "with some sort of OCR"
Picture1.Print
Picture1.Print "Such images can could also be used for overlaying"
Picture1.Print "whatever that may be!"
 
Call SavePicture(Picture1.Image, App.Path & "\test.bmp")
Shell "mspaint.exe" & Chr$(32) & App.Path & "\test.bmp", vbMaximizedFocus
End Sub

HTH