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how do you display bmp's how do you load and display bit map's or other graphic files to the screen. how do you check if a key is beiong pressed.
Well the api's for displaying a bitmap are LoadImage or LoadIcon to get a handle to a loaded an icon and DrawIcon using the handle and x,y coordinates and a handle to a device context.
The WM_KEYDOWN message is posted to the window with keyboard focus when a nonsystem (no alt key) key is pressed.
For me to make any heads or tells of windows programming I had to read Charles Petzold "Programming Windows 95", you can get used copies at Amazon.com. Having said that, I would recommend Petzold's "Programming Windows fifth edition", its more complete .
