com,

Me and another board member were looking into this exact thing about a year or so ago. the idea was to have a "template" bitmap stored on each wkstn, then during login, dynamically draw some details over the bitmap, then present it to the user.

We couldn`t find any off-the-shelf com objects or commandline utils to do this. In my experience, loading bitmaps into windows is easy, trying to get that bitmap back into a file is a little tougher (there is no savebitmap() windows api to my knowledge).

There are "lots" of third-party runtimes for doing this though. And Kixforms can easily display and minipulate a bitmap, but the problem is that its not off-the-shelf!

-Shawn

Complete list of WMI objects ? Best place is MSDN:

WMI Reference

[ 12 April 2002, 15:14: Message edited by: Shawn ]