Thread: Tga

I'm tired of using other people's image libraries. So I decided to write my own. I started with Bitmap files (.BMP, .ICO, & .CUR) first. It took me about an hour to finish those because it is easy to use the built in BitBlt() function. Now I'm on TGA files. I went to wotsit.org and found the documentation but I'm unsure exactly how to display the file. Should I convert it to a bitmap somehow? Or do i have to do a for() loop and display the bits 1 by 1? Or is there some other way? Once I figure this out the rest is easy...

Once you have the decoded bits there are two options you can use to copy them to a windows HBITMAP. The first is to create an HBITMAP using CreateCompatibleBitmap and then copy the bits to it using SetDIBits. The other option is to create a dib section HBITMAP using CreateDIBSection. This will give you a pointer to the memory that contains the bits. You can read or decode your tga image into this memory. There is a sample of this approach here.

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