>>>>>Does anybody know of a way to save a string of text as an ico file.
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>>>>Well, assuming that you have the binary contents of the icon file front to back why wouldn't you be able to open a file for binary input write and close?
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>>>> Is there a little more scope to your question? Maybe I am missing the point...
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>>>Well... I meant cur instead of ico.
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>>>What I need to be able to do is when a person tries to drag an item eg. a textbox, I would like the mouse pointer to change to the text. I don't want to drag a copy of the textbox though. I actually want to change the mouse pointer to be a copy of the text. I couldn't find a way that this could be done without somehow building an cur file and using that to set as the pointer. What I need to know is how would I go about converting and saving the word ... "POINTER" ... as the image in the cursor file.
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>>Wow, I will have to get back with you on this. I have some code that does letters to pictures maybe I can get it to create a temp cursor and display it from a picbox. Let me see if i have you right. If I highlight Let me see in my previous sentance and drag it the mouse pointer would change from a pointer to a picture of Let me see. Correct?
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>sorry about the bolds all over the first message.

Yea that would be it.