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.