Displaying an Image with C++

Hi,

i was wondering how to display an image to screen using c++. Which would be the best way to go about doing this, any help would be great.

Thanks.

There isn't a "standard library" way to do that. You will have to either use system specific functions (e.g. Windows API calls) or use a third party library [wxWidgets comes to mind, but I'm no expert at that].

So we would need to know if you are using Windows or some form of Unix (or some other OS perhaps). Which compiler you are using would also be useful.

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Mats

Thanks,

I will be using Windows XP, i like to use Visual C++ Express to do my development. So i guess looking at the Windows API is probably a good place to start.

Ok, so you will first of all need to create a simple window. On top of that, you will have to load the bitmap (using for example LoadImage()), and then use a BitBlt() function to draw the image to the window.

If you haven't got a book that describes how to do Windows programming, I would suggest that you get one - Charles Petzold (I think that's the correct spelling) have good reputation when it comes for writing books on Windows programming. There are dozens of other good authors too.

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Mats

Thanks for your help.

Much appreciated .

Suggest you load that bitmap and keep it open as long as your program is running. If the window needs repainting, it's much, much faster to redraw a bitmap you have loaded rather than reloading the bitmap and drawing it.
Consider it an advice.

Greets,
I would like to "Open/display/write transparent .png win32 api"
in "C" Source. Is there maybe a snippet for this?

Thanks a gig...vmars316

Do not bother with WinAPI.

You cannot just "display it". You will need to have a form processing events, etc. You can use wxWidgets (it is free), but if you are targetting Windows you can use MFC (I am not expert at Visual Studio).

In C? Then why are you posting in the C++ forum, then? Unless I am misunderstanding something, that is.