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Original Bitmap
Subregion of the original bitmap
Environment: VC6
This article shows you how to create a portion of a 24-bit/pixel bitmap at runtime. In order to do this, you must add a 24-bit/pixel bitmap to your resources in VC++, decide what portion of the bitmap you wish (specified by the x-y coordinates of the upper left corner and the horizontal/vertical size of the portion), and what .bmp file you want the new portion of the bitmap to be store. The .bmp file created can be used at a later time, but in addition the bitmap of the subregion can be retrieved and used, for example, in your OnDraw function.
In the following code sample, we create a portion of a huge bitmap. The subregion is 416 by 224 pixels, but the original bitmap is well over 100 times this size.
CBitmapSubRegion bsr;
BOOL bSuccess;
// IDB_BITMAP_SCHUMACHERCAR is a 24-bit/pixel
// resource ID added to VC++
bSuccess = bsr.SetResourceID(IDB_BITMAP_SCHUMACHERCAR);
if (bSuccess)
{
bSuccess = bsr.SetFileNameOfResourceBitmap(
CString(“SchumacherCar.bmp”));
if (bSuccess)
{
// Want to create a subregion which starts at
// (x,y) of (259,317) and is 416-pixels wide by
// 224-pixels tall
bSuccess = bsr.SetSubRegionOfBitmap(259,317,416,224);
if (bSuccess)
{
//Set where to store the new bitmap
bSuccess = bsr.SetFileNameForNewBitmap(
CString(“SuhumacherCarSubRegion.bmp”));
if (bSuccess)
{
bSuccess = bsr.CreateBitmapOfSubRegion();
if (bSuccess)
{
m_pBitmapSubRegion =
bsr.RetrieveBitmapOfSubRegion();
}
}
}
}
}
