LoadBitmap help

[mark smit]

Hello all...
I hate to bug everyone here with my stupid questions but yet again I am stumpped!

dim BMINFO as BITMAP
dim hBmp as long

hBmp = LoadBitmap(hInstance, "button1")
GetObject(hBmp, sizeof(BMINFO), BMINFO)

all the members of BMINFO report proper values for the bitmap except for ".bmBits" for some reason this returns zero. This member is supposed to contain the 32bit address for the bitmap pixel data. Am I missing something here?

Cheers!

[Lance Edmonds]

I'd say your answer lies in the following WIN32.HLP notes:

The buffer pointed to by the lpvObject parameter must be sufficiently large to receive the information about the graphics object.
If hgdiobj identifies a bitmap created by calling CreateDIBSection, and the specified buffer is large enough, the GetObject function returns a DIBSECTION structure. In addition, the bmBits member of the BITMAP structure contained within the DIBSECTION will contain a pointer to the bitmap's bit values.

If hgdiobj identifies a bitmap created by any other means, GetObject returns only the width, height, and color format information of the bitmap. You can obtain the bitmap's bit values by calling the GetDIBits or GetBitmapBits function.

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[mark smit]

Oh... Now I get it!

Thank you Lance. What docments/help files did that little blurb come from. If I new, I could stop asking DaFt questions. As it turns out, I ended up using code from SMTP.BAS

Thanks again!
Cheers!

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[Lance Edmonds]

WIN32.HLP comes from:
http://www.powerbasic.com/files/pub/mstools/win32.zip

Warning... 8Mb download, but worth every byte!

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Lance
PowerBASIC Support
mailto:[email protected][email protected]</A>