Help URGENT!!! Need to display an image whose path is decided at run time.

[awasthy]

Hi all, I am a new VC++ programmer. I need to acess a bmp file and read its pixels but urgently I need to know how to display an image on the screen whose path is chosen by browsing throgh the file system. Please Help Awasthy

[Tareq Ahmed Siraj]

Use ::LoadImage() ... look it up in MSDN. Hope this helps. - tareq

[awasthy]

Hi I have the path of the image and its handle using LoadImage() but how do I display it? No picture is being displayed. Awasthy Any work worth doing is worth doing well.

[Tareq Ahmed Siraj]

Assuming youre using MFC ... use the following code...

HBITMAP bmp = (HBITMAP)::LoadImage(::GetModuleHandle(0), _T("Coffee.bmp"), IMAGE_BITMAP, 0, 0, LR_LOADFROMFILE);
CBitmap* pBitmap = CBitmap::FromHandle(bmp);
CPaintDC dc(this);
CDC memDc;
memDc.CreateCompatibleDC(&dc);
CBitmap* pMemBmp = memDc.SelectObject(pBitmap);
dc.BitBlt(0,0,200,200,&memDc,0,0,SRCCOPY); //put your image width,height for the 3rd and 4th param

memDc.SelectObject(pMemBmp);
::DeleteObject(bmp);

- tareq