Re: TIFF to DIB Conversion
* alexis:
Alf P. Steinbach wrote:
* marcusadeleon@gmail.com:
Hi,
I need to be able to convert a TIFF image read from disk to a DIB in
memory preferably stored in a HGLOBAL variable. What is the best way
to go about doing this?
I don't know (and will probably learn from other replies in this thread).
But, just in case nobody mentions, IIRC it used to be undocumented
that the OleLoadPictureXXX-family of functions supported JPEG format.
It has always been documented.
Read MSDN.
Oldest MSDN I have on this machine is from July 2002, and there it's documented
for OleLoadPicturePath but not for OleLoadPicture.
When I mentioned "undocumented" I meant before then.
However, I'm not in the mood for detective work on old disks... ;-)
Cheers,
- Alf (noting in passing that it's nothing new that undocumented Windows
functionality has become documented; I think it started with lopen() et al.)
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