Thanks for the quick reply, the thing is it looks perfect when printed off of my computer. Probably have to just rework it so it prints off on two pages going with the 600px wide, wish there was a way to force it to scale to computers with lower resolution then mine. I developed it on 1600x1200.

I figured out why it wouldn't work, I wasn't calling a function that would make it visible. Also after contacting the company, they released the .net 2.0 version today for download. Thanks for the responses. Gerry

Thanks you very much for the quick response, that was exactly what i was looking for, and that fixed what i found to be an annoyance. Gerry

There is an article about them here on CP http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/mclhotkeynet.asp

Glad you get to spend the time you do, helping others. Someday, I'll be able to answer questions, I did some testing on some of what ya gave me, the following throws an error Dim b As Bitmap = New Bitmap(800, 1100, Imaging.PixelFormat.Format1bppIndexed) Dim g As Graphics = Graphics.FromImage(b) This throws the following error Additional information: A Graphics object cannot be created from an image that has an indexed pixel format. Tomorrow I'll grab a image that works, and see what specs I can get.

That's how I have my images, in a image list. I can avoid it if I can set the images at runtime, for when it's checked or not checked. You don't have a brief example on how to just set the image for a item in a listview - I have it on details view and checkboxes enabled. Thanks for your help

All your doing by setting .PrintToFIle to Ture is enabling the little check box on the dialog that allows the user to select printing to a file. The only way your going to be able to get a filename to print to is to build a dialog yourself or use a SaveDialog. Then you'll have to handle outputting the text to the file. You can't "print" to the filename you get. Unfortunately, the Print To File functionality doesn't work. I'm hoping it'll be fixed in the next service pack for the .NET Framework, if not in .NET 2.0. RageInTheMachine9532 "...a pungent, ghastly, stinky piece of cheese!" -- The Roaming Gnome

I figured after not finding anything on printing to a file, as I was wanting to do. Thanks for your help, and suggestions.

The thing is I'm not wanting the controls to show through the child window.. If you were to create a mdi window and throw some controls on it, then have a child window open inside that mdi window. The controls that you put on the mdi window show through the Child window, as if the the controls are infront of the child window you just opened. I was trying to prevent this, easily, but taking your suggestion. I'm setting the visibilty property of the controls that are on the main window to false when a mdi child window opens, and setting them back to true when the child window closes.

Yah I had seen that at atalasoft.. I'm going to try that.. I had seen here on the site somebody had made a program to scan using twain.. Been looking at how they did it. Thanks Gerry