> What is the proper way of saving a Bitmap to a resource?  I remember
> someone from PalmSource mentioning that one can't copy the Bitmap directly,
> because the bitmap header and the bitmap data may not be contiguous in
> memory.  I've looked in the eScribe archives, but I guess my search-fu
> is lacking.

First, create an offscreen bitmap, assign a window to it, then do a 
WinCopyRectangle to copy the bitmap off the screen into off-screen 
storage.  Then, you can safely use BmpGetBits -- you only have to worry 
about non-contiguous bitmaps when dealing with screen hardware, AFAIK.
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Ben Combee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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