Chapter 11 Bitmaps

Your application for the Microsoft Windows operating system can use bitmaps to display images that are otherwise too cumbersome to draw by using graphics device interface (GDI) output functions. This chapter shows how to create and display bitmaps for monochrome and color screens.

This chapter covers the following topics:

What a bitmap is

Creating and displaying bitmaps

Adding color to monochrome bitmaps

Deleting bitmaps

This chapter also explains how to create a sample Windows 3.1 application, Bitmap, which illustrates many of these concepts.