Tim Zorn wrote: i think it has something to do with the pallette The fact that you're setting quality makes me thing you're saving a jpeg. Only greyscale jpegs have a pallete, and it's fixed ( because it's greyscale ). I'd break the process into steps. Load your image, then draw it on the screen. If it's OK there, then the problem is the saving code. Simplify that, and add stuff back in until it breaks. Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++

The only way to notify the server is to catch the onunload event and open a new window that logs the person out. The event fires when the page unloads for any reason, so you have to keep track of where you are going. This of course only works if javascript is enabled, and no popup blocker stops the code from opening the window. --- b { font-weight: normal; }

You could create a custom control that handled the drawing and then insert the control in the dialog. To enable drawing you need to handle mouse messages (button down, mouse move, button up, etc.) and draw in the window accordingly. You can look at Microsoft's scribble sample program to get ideas on how to do it. There are Win32 and .NET versions for this sample, and although they are intended as MFC tutorials, you can still use it to extract useful ideas. -- jlr http://jlamas.blogspot.com/[^]

Using GetWindowText may not work for windows created in another process, but sending WM_GETTEXT directly should work anyway. -- jlr http://jlamas.blogspot.com/[^]

i know how to put bitmaps on buttons now but i dont know how to do it the way i want. i want a bitmap to be stretched across the button and i want to be able to put text on the button. i have found an article that does it but i dont understand the source so im asking for help. For Example: a program called ICQ is skinned so it has custom buttons. but when i look at it's resourses the buttons are not ownerdrawn. all i want to do is make a custom button that has text on it. i dont even need the handling for if its selected, default, etc cuz i can find that out myself help would be appriciated thx:)

You must create a compatible bitmap for the DC "pthisDC", select this bitmap to the DC "pthisDC" before the function "BitBlt" and deselect the bitmap after the function "BitBlt".