Re: [Dev-C++] Loading a bitmap and getting its handle ???

[Alfred P. R. <al...@ya...>]

I've loaded them as a resource file, then:
 
#include <windows.h> ...
 
int WINAPI WinMain (HINSTANCE hThisInstance,
                    HINSTANCE hPrevInstance,
                    LPSTR lpszArgument,
                    int nFunsterStil) {
...
HICON windowIcon;
...
windowIcon = LoadIcon(hThisInstance, "A"); ...
 
The resource file (*.rc) declares, in this instance an icon, "A" as:

A ICON MOVEABLE PURE LOADONCALL DISCARDABLE "FileCleanerPro.ico"

If I recall correctly, this will work for BMP files also.  BTW: The Win32 API Programmers Reference documents this in a kind of indirect way.  I can e-mail it if you don't have the file, but be aware that it is 11.279MB in size.

Hopefully this helps!

A_B...@gm... wrote:

Hi,
I want to use the BitBlt and StrechBlt APIs for drawing images on a window.
Now this APIs needs handles to the window and the bitmap.
I can get the handle of the window, but how do I load a bitmap into memory and get its handle ???


thx, Acki





Alfred P. Reaud