Display High Colour & True Colour bitmaps

[flipsflops]

Palette operations it would appear do not function on devices that use more than 256 colours.

Any suggestions on where to start trying to use the higher colour modes to display images on a window.

[Dan Haddix]

Palettes are not needed for devices that use more then 256 colors!!! Palettes are designed to make displaying graphics on a 256 color device more graceful, by allowing you to assign those limited number of colors to ones that better suit your applications needs. High color devices allready have a large numbere of colors built in so there is no need for an application defined palette. However if what your trying to do is to display a high color bitmap on a 256 color device try using CreateHalftonePalette, it will create a generic 256 color palette that is best suited for high color images. Hope this helps!!!

[flipsflops]

I shall look at using DIB's to display 24 bit colour images and try to forget about palettes.