Your application can use bitmaps to display images that are otherwise too cumbersome to draw using GDI output functions. This chapter shows how to create and display bitmaps for monochrome as well as color displays.
This chapter covers the following topics:
What is a bitmap?
Creating bitmaps
Displaying bitmaps
Adding color to monochrome bitmaps
Deleting bitmaps
This chapter also explains how to create a sample application, Bitmap, which
illustrates many of the concepts explained in this chapter.