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From: patrickd@chinet.chi.il.us (Patrick Deupree)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Saving Bitmaps
Message-ID: <9163@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 4 Aug 89 13:48:07 GMT
References: <30368@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: patrickd@chinet.chi.il.us (Patrick Deupree)
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Organization: The Whitewater Group, Evanston IL
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In article <30368@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> kipnis@janus.berkeley.edu (Gary Kipnis) writes:
>
>   Hi, I am working on a program that uses a big color bitmap, I would like
>   to save this bitmap when my application is iconified so that I can free
>   up the memory, how would I go about dumping a bitmap to a disk and then
>   reading it from a disk

Since all a bitmap is is a structure that contains fields of header information
plus an array of binary data (in the case of my program in Actor I used a
Struct) it's really pretty easy.  All you'd have to do is create a file and
store your header info first, then store the binary data.  Doing this is just 
a matter of normal file IO routines.

-- 
"I place my faith in fools.  Self confidence, my friends call it."
					-Edgar Allen Poe

Patrick Deupree -> patrickd@chinet.chi.il.us