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Creating image as a text character and then....

I am emulating a vt-100 terminal using a flexgrid. Because a character in a flexgrid cell will not align flush with the borders of the cell (it always pads) I am going to use the cellpicture property to display text. To do this I will need to create an image on the fly which represents the ascii character I wish to represent. I assume I will be using GDI for this... Can someone please show me an example in VB of how to create a memory area to draw in, draw a text character in that area (specifying font and fontsize) and then passing that image to the cellpicture property of a flexgrid. 225X225 should be adequate for my fontsize...

AzraSound

Have you considered just using an invisible picturebox?

mccainz2

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cant use a picturebox as I have to use only those controls which already exist in the application. It is a fielded app and we cant require an update which would require admins logging on.

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mccainz2

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Azra, let me look into that........

FunkyMeister

Actually, the more common approach to tossing items in over flexgrids are text boxes.

Curious what reasons lead you to emulate VT-100 with a flexgrid, most of the flexgrid applications aren't meant for highspeed data (since VT100 can rewrite/draw it's screen very fast and flexgrids will severely lack in that department on low end machines).

What controls do you have available to work with?

mccainz2

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Yup, I was having some kind of mentalblock on the picturebox. I had somehow convinced myself that it would require GDI functions to write text into ....SHEESH!
Its so appalingly easy! Oh well, I did learn some interesting Font and Caret functions. THanks Azra.