How about streaming the object out using Delphi's internal streaming to a
memory mapped file?? And re-creating at the other end using a TReader etc.
Myles.
-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Scadden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, 17 July 2001 3:54 p.m.
To: Multiple recipients of list delphi
Subject: Re: [DUG]: Sharing a bitmap between processes
> You can use the DuplicateHandle Win32 API function
> to create a handle to a graphical object in a
> different process. There are access restrictions
> and all that to worry about naturally.
>
> But if performance is an issue i'd expect that to
> be much faster than sharing a memorymapped
> metafile or allocating the memory yourself
> and writing DIB data to it.
This is kind of what I am looking for, but my documents dont mention HBitmap
as one of the types of handle that you can use DuplicateHandle for. Are you
sure
that you can do this?
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