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Re: Bitmaps under Windows

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From: Bill Turner
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1990 19:35
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> We are in the process of porting some Macintosh code to Windows and are
> having some trouble with bitmaps.  On the Macintosh, I an able to setup
> a bitmap that points to a particular address in memory and then BLT to
> or from that bitmap.  In the application we are writing, a buffer
> containing bitmap data, and the organization of that data are being
> passed to a routine that wants to BLT that data either to another
> location in memory or to a window.  Is it possible to create a device
> context for the source bitmap and then associate the buffer memory with
> that context without having Windows allocate the bits when the device
> context is created?

Once the memory DC has been created, you can use SelectObject(hMemDC, hBitmap)
to change the bitmap used, just as you would with any other drawing object.

--Bill Turner (bturner@hp-pcd.hp.com)
HP Interface Technology Operation
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From: bturner@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com (Bill Turner)
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Subject: Re: Bitmaps under Windows
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Date: 28 Feb 90 19:35:01 GMT
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