Chapter 15. The Device-Independent Bitmap
In the last chapter, we saw how the Windows GDI bitmap object (also known as the device-dependent bitmap, or DDB) is useful for a variety of programming chores. However, I did not demonstrate how to save these bitmaps to disk files or load them back into memory. This is something that was done back in the old days of Windows but is never done today. The DDB is inadequate for the purpose of image interchange because the format of the bitmap bits is highly device-dependent. There is no color table in a DDB that specifies a correspondence between the bitmap bits and color. The DDB makes sense only when it is created and destroyed within the lifetime of a Windows session.
The device-independent bitmap (or DIB) ...
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