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#Bitmaps

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#104220From: Harold ScaddenMay 12, 1990 8:56 PM
Have any of you ever used the IFF Library to load a picture into a windows BitMap? or created a custom bitmap, loaded into the custom bitmap then point the window to it? I have been trying everything I can think of to get an IFF picture into a windows bitmap without much luck. I think I have seen just about every GURU there is! Thanx for any help.
#104379From: Ariel ButlerMay 13, 1990 3:34 PM
Harold: I have been using the library by Christian Slater, not the other one by Mr. Albrecht (sorry, Robert). I'll Email you a code segment that you can peruse. Note that the segment I'm sending builds an offscreen bitmap, and then ClipBlits from that onto the visible screen. This was so that you could handle rasters larger than that which can be displayed. It would be pretty trivial to make it decode right onto the current view, if you need it to work that way. Ariel