Ok, this has worked well, thanks for the tips to you both.

One wrinkle though. One of the bitmaps I'm using has a transparency set.
However, obviously when I copy from the offscreen window to the main screen
the transparency is dropped (not surprising). Any clever tricks to avoid
this?


"Ben Combee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>
> At 09:55 2003-5-28 -0400, Chris DiPierro wrote:
> > > WARNING!
> > > Due to a limitation in the way that this function is implemented,
> > > BitmapCreateBitmapV3 doesn't work with compressed bitmaps. Don't pass
> > > bitmaps to this function that have the compressed flag set.
> >
> >Right, that'd do it. Ok, then anyone want to give me a way to display a
> >standard bitmap without it being rescaled on OS/5 and without creating a
V3
> >bitmap from it then?
>
> First draw the bitmap to an bitmap window (effectively decompressing it),
> then change that bitmap using BitmapCreateBitmapV3.
>
> -- 
> Ben Combee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> CodeWarrior for Palm OS technical lead
> Palm OS programming help @ www.palmoswerks.com
>
>
>



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