Thread: Loading images other than Bitmaps

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    >This article you gave me makes GDI+ look Win32 specific.

    This is the Windows board, is it not?

    >Is this the only way to use image files (besides bitmaps)?

    As already stated you can look into the file formats yourself and convert them (quite a lot of work for some file types), or use a third party library (intel has a free jpeg library on their site).

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    Originally posted by Sorensen
    >This article you gave me makes GDI+ look Win32 specific.

    This is the Windows board, is it not?

    >Is this the only way to use image files (besides bitmaps)?

    As already stated you can look into the file formats yourself and convert them (quite a lot of work for some file types), or use a third party library (intel has a free jpeg library on their site).
    Oops! I seriously meant to write WinXP instead of Win32. On the microsoft site, it only mentioned WinXP, not Win9x. Could you give me an overview of how to convert file types? Do you just read them and then change the data that you read in? Thanks...

    Garfield
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    >Could you give me an overview of how to convert file types? Do you just read them and then change the data that you read in?

    Yes, read the source file, construct the bitmap headers, convert the actual image data from the source file into the required bitmap format and construct a bitmap to display. Depending on the source file format this isn't always a trivial process. And depending on this format learning how to use GDI+ in Windows 98 will probably be the easier option.

    If you want to go ahead a convert them yourself, make sure you've got a good grasp on the Windows Bitmap format and take a look at -

    http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/mxr/gfx/utils-hi.html

    which looks like it has plenty of info.

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    Thanks for the link! I'll take a look at GDI+ and converting the files to choose which to do. Thanks again!

    Garfield
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