Showing pictures on display in real time

[BlackOps]

I will work with BMP images on the embedded FPGA system and display them on custom VGA controller... so, now i want to work and process BMP images here on PC with C first. I plan to read BMP images, then process them... i can save processed images...

but i thought, that it would be nice to see the result of processing immediately...is it possible here on windows? i know that its possible if i use Windows API and C, right?

is there another way? some another package maybe? where i could send my pixels from memory and see the result immediately...not just do all the work...then open saved BMP file and see whats there...

and i'm not going to go into C++ or go far in windows api... so...what u think is fastest solution for this case?

thankx

[Elysia]

You can use some Image loading function in windows, if you want. It will read the file.
Then you need to use GDI or some graphics-related API to draw on the screen/window.
Usually, you would load your image and the pixels are stored in an array which are then blitted to the window/screen.

[BlackOps]

i heard there is some kind of TCL package for such purposes is there? i'm searching google now...cant find something like that what i need yet..

[Elysia]

I don't know what TCL is. I'm sure there are libraries for this kind of task, however.

[acas7i11o]

Check Cone3D Programming - SDL, OpenGL and C++ Tutorials which is a very simple and fast solution.