Thread: deleting this bitmap

in a large programme i'm making i've decided to display an image, but i don't want it be seen forever so i wondered if anybody knew how the deleting the image that is displayed from the code below.

Code:

LRESULT CALLBACK WndProc (HWND hwnd, UINT message, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam)
{
	HANDLE hFile;
    HDC hdc;
    PAINTSTRUCT ps;
    TEXTMETRIC tm;
    SIZE size;
    HFONT font;
    
    static BITMAPFILEHEADER *pbmfh;
    static BITMAPINFO *pbmi;
    static BYTE *pBits;
    static int cxDib, cyDib;
    switch (message)   
	switch(message)
	{

	case WM_PAINT:
	DWORD dwFileSize, dwHighSize, dwBytesRead;
	hFile = CreateFile ("E:\\image.BMP", GENERIC_READ,
	                   FILE_SHARE_READ, NULL,
	                   OPEN_EXISTING,
	                   FILE_FLAG_SEQUENTIAL_SCAN,
	                   NULL);
    dwFileSize = GetFileSize (hFile, &dwHighSize);
    pbmfh = (BITMAPFILEHEADER *) malloc (dwFileSize);
    ReadFile (hFile, pbmfh, dwFileSize,
             &dwBytesRead, NULL);
    pbmi = (BITMAPINFO *) (pbmfh + 1);
    pBits = (BYTE *) pbmfh + pbmfh->bfOffBits;
    cxDib = pbmi->bmiHeader.biWidth;
    cyDib = abs(pbmi->bmiHeader.biHeight);
    HDC hdc;
    hdc = GetDC (hwnd);
    
    SetDIBitsToDevice (hdc,
                     0,
                     250,
                     cxDib,
                     cyDib,
                     
                     0,
                     0,
                     0,
                     cyDib,
                     pBits,
                     pbmi,
                     DIB_RGB_COLORS);
    ReleaseDC (hwnd, hdc);
    free (pbmfh);

	return 0;

whoops never mind, i found out how to.

cool.. I have the same question.. i'm thinking about coding up a game of texas holdem'.. and I want to display and remove bitmap images of cards.. I was thinking about using InvalidateRect( ) to repaint the entire window.. but this seems kinda inefficient.. what method did you use?

i used a whole different way. I used resources.

And then to delete it i used deleteobject()