bitmap poll

I wrote my own program. I guess it loads pixel by pixel, but I''m not sure (I use stdio).

There is nothing wrong with getting Windows to do something for you. If it would write my games with one API call, I would call it.

LoadImage uses .bmp's. Paint.exe uses .bmp's. I use .bmp's.
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Edited by - spejic on 3/9/00 9:25:13 PM

Are there new tecniques to load bitmaps?
You can use Windows API or you can use your own functions...bmps are the simplest image format and it''s very easy to implement a loader (or a saver).
When you call fread(...) for example you specify a number of bytes to be read from disk...you have not to read pixel by pixel.

An even better idea than using Windows Bitmaps is to use something like, say, Targa. =) Or, try JPEG--there are many libraries out there that do most of the work for you. Windows Bitmaps are stupid, cumbersome, and unnecessarily large.