Function name: CreateDIBSection

Defined in : gdi32

Requirements : Windows NT 3.1 or later; Windows 95 or later

Declaration:

Declare Function CreateDIBSection Lib "gdi32" (ByVal hdc As Long, pBitmapInfo As BITMAPINFO, ByVal un As Long, ByVal lplpVoid As Long, ByVal handle As Long, ByVal dw As Long) As Long

Parameters:

* hdc Handle to a device context. If the value of iUsage is DIB_PAL_COLORS, the function uses this device context’s logical palette to initialize the device-independent bitmap’s colors. * pbmi Points to a BITMAPINFO structure that specifies various attributes of the device-independent bitmap, including the bitmap’s dimensions and colors. * iUsage Specifies the type of data contained in the bmiColors array member of the BITMAPINFO structure pointed to by pbmi: logical palette indices or literal RGB values. The following values are defined: DIB_PAL_COLORS The bmiColors member is an array of 16-bit indices into the logical palette of the device context specified by hdc. DIB_RGB_COLORS The BITMAPINFO structure contains an array of literal RGB values. * ppvBits Points to a variable that receives a pointer to the location of the device-independent bitmap’s bit values. * hSection Handle to a file mapping object that the function will use to create the device-independent bitmap. This parameter can be NULL. If hSection is not NULL, it must be a handle to a file mapping object created by calling the CreateFileMapping function. Handles created by other means will cause CreateDIBSection to fail. If hSection is not NULL, the CreateDIBSection function locates the bitmap’s bit values at offset dwOffset in the file mapping object referred to by hSection. An application can later retrieve the hSection handle by calling the GetObject function with the HBITMAP returned by CreateDIBSection. If hSection is NULL, the operating system allocates memory for the device-independent bitmap. In this case, the CreateDIBSection function ignores the dwOffset parameter. An application cannot later obtain a handle to this memory: the dshSection member of the DIBSECTION structure filled in by calling the GetObject function will be NULL. * dwOffset Specifies the offset from the beginning of the file mapping object referenced by hSection where storage for the bitmap’s bit values is to begin. This value is ignored if hSection is NULL. The bitmap’s bit values are aligned on doubleword boundaries, so dwOffset must be a multiple of the size of a DWORD.

Returns:

If the function succeeds, the return value is a handle to the newly created device-independent bitmap, and *ppvBits points to the bitmap’s bit values. If the function fails, the return value is NULL, and *ppvBits is NULL. To get extended error information, call GetLastError.

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