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In article <1992Jul21.180439.12547@twisto.eng.hou.compaq.com> mccreary@sword.eng.hou.compaq.com (Ed McCreary) writes:
>In article <1682BEB88.SSCHEMA@ibm.gwdg.de> SSCHEMA@ibm.gwdg.de (Stefan Schemat) writes:
>>Does anybody knows how to load and display a BMP file with 256
>>colors under Windows 3.x?
...
>... you need to create a logical palette based upon the colors needed in the 
>image, select it into the device context and realize it before displaying.

It just so happens that we just wasted a fair amount of time figuring
out how exactly this works.  After giving up on the Microsoft Windows
manuals, we figured it out based on information in the Windows API
Bible from the Waite Group Press.  Thank you very much, Microsoft, for
your fine, thorough, clear, and complete documentation.  It turns out
that LoadBitmap always maps the colors in your bitmap to the 20 system
colors, even if the image is 256 colors and your device has 256 colors
available, so you can't use LoadBitmap to do what you want (I'm pretty
sure this is true; if anyone thinks they know otherwise, please let me
know.)

As far as I know, the only reasonable (by Microsoft Windows standards)
way to accomplish what you want is to use FindResource, LoadResource,
and LockResource to get your hands on the color table and bits for
your bitmap resource; then to build and realize an appropriate
palette for the color table using CreatePalette, SelectPalette, and
RealizePalette; and finally to use SetDIBitsToDevice to do the
display.  (You also could do something similar to build the proper
256 color device dependent bitmap for later BitBlt-ing.)



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