Chapter 23 Bitmaps

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.