You can paint the two bitmaps side by side in a picture box,
then get the final bitmap from the picture box hWnd property
and save it to a file. You need a lot of API calls to do it.
Try using one the cheapest third party imaging tools you
can find (you can download a demo version of most of them) 

m.


-----Original Message-----
From: Sai Krishnan [mailto:sai.krishnan@m...]
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 4:52 AM
To: professional vb
Subject: [pro_vb] Merging and saving bitmaps


Hello all,
 
    Maybe a simple question..
 
    I want to join 2 or more than 2 bitmaps and save it as a single large 
image.. Can anybody help me out??
 
For ex:  I have two bitmaps (left.bmp and right.bmp).  i need to merge 
both these bitmaps to make the merged.bmp in VB..
 
Can somebody help me out..?
 
Thanx in advance,
Sai