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From: darkness@altger.UUCP (darkness)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Need Help: Saving and restoring bitmaps on disk
Keywords: Bitmaps Storage
Message-ID: <2002@altger.UUCP>
Date: 9 Nov 89 23:58:14 GMT
Reply-To: darkness@altger.UUCP (darkness)
Organization: Altos Computer Systems Munich
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Dear Windows-cracks
 
I have a little problem writing an Mandelbrot-generator for windows in C
It already works fine, but I have to save the bitmap associated 
with my main window to disk and of course be able restore and 
display it later on.
 
Is there any *easy* way to save a bitmap? The format doesn't matter, 
it should only work, that's all. It also need not to be device independent,
because the files are merely temporary.
 
I could only imagine to calculate the length of the bitmap in memory and 
then write the BITMAP-structure and the Bitmap-Bits to disk, but this 
seems too complicated to be the only way.
 
Greets,
 
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Munich/Germany              and you will see that only idiots will
altger                      want to use it.               (Murphy)
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