Windows, Bitmaps, and morons (me)

[w384life]

Ok I have a Dialog Box that a need to display a Bitmap in that has to be loaded from a .bmp file. I'm Using MFC....i can loaded the BMP to a Cbitmap....but when i i try to draw it to the dialog i just get a pink (255,0,255) square the size of my image......cant somebody point out to me what im doing wrong or what i need to do? thanks in advance.

[Codeplug]

Originally posted by w384life
...cant somebody point out to me what im doing wrong or what i need to do?

We sure can!
Give us something to point at...

gg

[BillBoeBaggins]

Are you sure you loaded it into the class, did you verify it?
Did you bitblit your bitmap into a Device Context matching your dialog?
Did you then bitblit it to your Dialog?
What API calls are you using?
(I don't know if these things are inherently done in this CBitmap class)

Source code... plz...

[w384life]

void CTexPropDlg::OnPaint() 
{
	CClientDC dc(this);
	CBitmap bmp;

HBITMAP hBmp = (HBITMAP)::LoadImage(
                NULL,
                "test.bmp",
                IMAGE_BITMAP,
                0,
                0,
                LR_LOADFROMFILE|LR_CREATEDIBSECTION
                );

	bmp.Attach(hBmp);
	BITMAP bm;
	bmp.GetObject(sizeof(BITMAP),&bm);
	CDC dcMem;
	dcMem.CreateCompatibleDC(&dc);
	CBitmap *old = dcMem.SelectObject(&bmp);
	
	dc.BitBlt(0,0,32,32,&dcMem,0,0,SRCCOPY);
	dcMem.SelectObject(old);

}

ignore how ugly its formated plz all that seems to acomplish is drawing a pink square. i tried the same code in the SDI's client area and it shows my bitmap perfectly.......so idunno if its becasue im trying to draw it onto the grey dialog background or what.

Thanks

[CornedBee]

Are you sure hBmp is valid?

And also, are you really loading this bmp every time you paint?

[Codeplug]

Works fine for me...when there's a test.bmp to be found

Also, you should be using a CPaintDC since you're within OnPaint().

gg

[w384life]

yeah originally it was a CPaintDC i was playing around with differnt ones to see if it made a differance......yes i am loading the bitmap every time i paint simply becasue i want to make it work lol....ill worry aobut efficient after it works. but it works fine you say? casue all im gettign is a pink square....does it have anything to do with the type of bitmap....like 256 color vs 16 bit color? thanks

[w384life]

how do u verify the hBmp? if(hBmp) ?

thanks

[CornedBee]

Check the LoadImage docs on the error return value.