need help drawing to a meta DC

[IGeorgeI]

At one point in my app, I have a bitmap and an enhanced meta DC I want to copy the bitmap into the meta Dc so that I can copy to the clipboard. I can't seem to get this to work. here is my code if ( OpenClipboard(hdc) ) { EmptyClipboard(); //create the metafile DC CMetaFileDC * cDC = new CMetaFileDC(); cDC->CreateEnhanced(GetDC(),NULL,NULL,NULL); //call draw routine here that makes GDI calls int cDC // my bitmap is here!! //close meta CMetafileDC and get its handle HENHMETAFILE handle = cDC->CloseEnhanced(); //place it on the clipboard SetClipboardData(CF_ENHMETAFILE,handle); CloseClipboard(); //delete the dc delete cDC; } I am stumped, any help appreciated IGeorgeI George W

[Shog9 0]

I think you might need to detach the metafile before deleting it:

cDC->Detach();
//delete the dc
delete cDC;

BTW: you might as well create the CMetaFileDC on the stack instead of using new. Also BTW: It is possible to put bitmaps on the clipboard directly. --------_**

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[IGeorgeI]

Thanks for reply but that didn't work. I have captured one of my components and saved it in memory as a bitmap. The class that I am using to capture, saves it as a bitmap so I have no choice but to work with bitmaps. I can already copy it as a bitmap to the clipboard and paste into other applications. That works great. I want to now copy it into the clipboard as an enhaced meta file. I have been trying to stretchBlt the bitmap to the EMF but that seems to work sort of but there is offsets and distortion that occurs. I just want to know if there is a propper way to copy the bitmap to an Enhanced meta file. I am really stumped here. IGeorgeI:confused: George W

[Paul M Watt]

Are you asking how to do it? If so, this is what you need to do:

// I would change this line
// cDC->CreateEnhanced(GetDC(),NULL,NULL,NULL);
// to this:
cDC->CreateEnhanced(hdc,NULL,NULL,NULL);
// this will help avoid a memory leak with DCs.

//call draw routine here that makes GDI calls int cDC

...
// my bitmap is here!!

CDC dcMem;
CBitmap *bmpOld;
// This creates a memory DC to use the bitmap with.
dcMem.CreateCompatibleDC(hdc);
bmpOld = dcMem.SelectObject(&cBitmap/*your CBitmap object*/);

BITMAP bm;
cBitmap.GetBitmap(&bm);
// Paint your bitmap at (x,y), for the same with and height as the bitmap.
cDC.BitBlt(x, y, bm.bmWidth, bm.bmHeight, dcMem, 0,0, SRCCOPY);

// Select the old bitmap into the memDC.
dcMem.SelectObject(bmpOld);

//close meta CMetaFileDC and get its handle
...

GoodLuck

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