Saving JPG's in data files

[Tony Martin]

I've been goofing around writing a tile sliding game. You have a image and it slices it up, you put the peices back together etc...

My problem is saving/loading the game. I'd like to get everything written into one file, but the image is in a picturebox and I can't "put" it like with everything else.

Below is the current code, it fails when it tries to put the image from the picturebox.

iFileNumber = FreeFile
Open iFileName For Binary As iFileNumber
Put iFileNumber, , MoveCount
Put iFileNumber, , GridArray
Put iFileNumber, , picMainPic.Image
Close iFileNumber

The load currently looks like this: It also fails on the picMainPic.Image line.

iFileNumber = FreeFile
Open iFileName For Binary As iFileNumber
'Read data
Get iFileNumber, , MoveCount
Get iFileNumber, , GridArray
Get iFileNumber, , picMainPic.Image
Close iFileNumber

So I guess my question is, if I can't use "Put" and "Get" on the image, how do I process it?

Thanks in Advance.

[cyborg]

im not 100% sure about this, but i think that the image variable only contains the address to the data in the memory.

try using a DIB and save the image data as an array of the colors