[RESOLVED] Extract Picturebox contents to a hex string

[Antithesus]

I have a picturebox on which I draw various lines, shapes and text.
Now I need to get all that picture data into a hex string.

I know, I can use "SavePicture" to save the picturebox to a .bmp,
then I can read the .bmp file byte by byte, and convert each to hex.

BUT......
I do NOT want to use a file/temp storage..... I want to merely extract the
data inside my app, without using a temp .bmp file.

I can do this with code I found http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...ight=image+hex, IF the picturebox contains an image...
but if it only contains graphics that code does not work.

I know it must be do-able, but I am stymied.

TIA

Update:
I suppose I could use a Bitmap instead of a Picturebox, and use the graphic methods on that.
In reality the user does not see the results of what I am doing.

So anyone with any help in extracting the contents of a Bitmap to a string ?