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LoadImage bitmap question

Started by ursus Jan 12, 2005 at 3:19 AM 1 replies 900+ views

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Jan 12, 2005 at 3:19 AM

hello all under win32 this is how you normally load a bitmap: pinky = (HBITMAP)LoadImage(hinstance,"pinkidonkey.bmp",IMAGE_BITMAP,0,0,LR_LOADFROMFILE); the condition is that the bitmap has to be in the same folder that the exe file. now, i was wandering if it's possible to create another folder, like: c:\...\YourApp\graphics put all the files in that folder and force the c sourcecode to look for the image files in that directory? thanks peter

Endurion

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Endurion

Jan 12, 2005 at 3:23 AM

Of course, you just need to put the complete path into the LoadImage function.

pinky = (HBITMAP)LoadImage(hinstance,"c:\\yourapp\\images\\pinkidonkey.bmp",IMAGE_BITMAP,0,0,LR_LOADFROMFILE);

If you insert the path directly like that make sure it has two backslashes though.

Even better, get the path from your exe and build a complete path from that. This way you ensure that the image is ALWAYS taken from the path you want.

ursus

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ursus

Jan 12, 2005 at 4:24 AM

thank's

what i did was:

c:\blah\blah...

and this is probably why it didn't work. needed: \
anyways, thank's again

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