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From: pdavid@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Paul C. David)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Getting a bitmap from a file.
Message-ID: <276ddade.933@petunia.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 18 Dec 90 09:01:18 GMT
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Organization: Cal Poly State University SLO
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I want to read a bitmap from a file, without declaring a
resource name in the *.rc file.  What is the file format
that I can expect?  I thought that it would be something
like this :

BITMAPFILEHEADER structure.
BITMAPINFO structure w/ a BITMAPINFOHEADER structure as a
member.
BITMAP bits.

The data that I can read is inconsistant.  For some
BMP files I can read the width and height, but not the #
of planes or bits per pixel.  For others, I can't even
read the height and width correctly.  I *must* be
forgetting something.  Can anyone help me out with a code
fragment, or a file format specification?  Please reply
via e-mail, I will forward this to anyone who requests
it.

Thanks, Paul.


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Paul C. David		pdavid@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU
California Polytechic State University, San Luis Obispo
Home of the six year or 60,000 mile undergrad degree