Bitmap Manipulation Techniques

The Windows versions 3.0 and 3.1 bitmap-manipulation Application Programming Interface (API) (BitBlt(), StretchBlt(), StretchDIBits(), and so forth) contains a powerful complement of Raster Operations (ROP) that allow for complicated handling of bitmaps. These raster-operation codes can be used, for example, to change an entire color in a bitmap without affecting the other colors.

The BMUTIL sample in the Microsoft Download Center demonstrates the following bitmap manipulation techniques:

1. Creating an unavailable or disabled (grayed) bitmap from a color bitmap using various ROP codes and the BitBlt() function.
2. Changing a single color in a bitmap without affecting any other colors. This is implemented completely using BitBlt() with various ROP codes.
3. Swapping two colors in a bitmap without affecting any other colors. This is also implemented with BitBlt() and ROP codes.
4. Dithering a color bitmap to a monochrome bitmap. This is done by manipulating the bits of a Device-Independent Bitmap (DIB) directly.

This sample uses the Windows 3.1 common dialog boxes, so you must have the Windows 3.1 SDK to compile it.

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