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From: michaelt@microsoft.UUCP (Michael Thurlkill 1/1029)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Bitmaps again...HELP
Keywords: bitmap
Message-ID: <7548@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 29 Aug 89 03:52:50 GMT
References: <25217@genrad.UUCP>
Reply-To: michaelt@microsoft.UUCP (Michael Thurlkill 1/1029)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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In article <25217@genrad.UUCP> cig@genrad.com (Charles I. Ganimian Jr.) writes:
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>	1st use snap to bring it into the clipboard then use paint
>	(or whatever) to modify it then put it back into the clipboard.
>	Next write an app which removes it from the clipboard and writes 
>	it to a file.  Is this possible?? Anybody have a clues.
>	
This is definitely possible.
In fact the "ClipBits" sample that comes with the SDK is structured
to do just this. However, the 'Save' portion isn't emplemented, even
though the menu selection is there. You could emplement this yourself
pretty easily. Basically, you want to grab the bitmap off the clipboard,
call GetBitmapBits to get the bitmap data, write out the following   
header, and then write out the bits. Reading the file would be sort of
the reverse.

Bitmap header:

typedef struct {
    WORD  dummy1;
    short bmType;
    short bmWidth;
    short bmHeight;
    short bmWidthBytes;
    BYTE  bmPlanes;
    BYTE  bmBitsPixel;
    DWORD dummy2;
} BMFILEHDR;

This is basically the same as the bitmap structure listed in the
Data Structure section of the reference manual.

Good luck,
Mike

Disclaimer: These thoughts and opinions are mine and noone elses.
            They shouldn't be misconstrued as being correct or
            related to my employer.