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Re: Too many ways to do the same thing!

• Posted by Lewis Townsend <keroltarr at HOTMAIL.COM> Mar 09, 2001
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Hello Dan,

>     I just recently started to program in Windows.  The definitions for 
>the
>code are kind of confusing and there are a lot of different code for 
>bitmaps.
>  Which would be the best for game programming?  For example what two 
>pieces
>of code would equal DOS's:
>read_bitmap()
>and display_image

That would be setPixmap and copyBlt() but they're not exactly the
same as their dos counterparts. You'll need to read up on them in
the docs.

>or maybe there is a better way of doing it in windows for game programming.

There ARE other ways to do it in windows but the routines I
mentioned are what I considder the "better way"


later,
Lewis Townsend