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In article <1992Apr8.030549.1944@a.cs.okstate.edu> arra@a.cs.okstate.edu (ARRA SHRAVAN KUMAR) writes:
>Dear Netters,
>
>	How do you save into a file some bitmaps? That is , if the user
>draws a series of graphical objects on the screen, how to save this work
>and retrieve when needed?
>Please help me. Thanks a lot in advance.
>

That depends upon how much information you want stored and what programs need
to retrieve it later.  If you want to store an image, the DIB format is
fairly simple and easy to implement.  All of the programs I've
seen which deal with images can utilize this format.  They are the
ones save to your disk with the .bmp extension.

Now, if you are writing an application along the lines of MacDraw, or
something that deals with objects, you may consider defining own format
for saving them.  For instance, if you have a graphics screen full
of squares and circles, you may want to save the end points and color
of the square and the radius, center, and color of the circle.  That
way you could move them around later if you wish.  If you go this
route I'd also include the option of saving the image as a DIBitmap,
since it's so wildly used.

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