Re: bitmap from clipboard to file

--- In [email protected], "Jim Barry" <j.barry@...> wrote:
> 
> Hi Nikos. It's probably best to avoid GlobalSize, as it may return a
> larger value than the size that was originally passed to GlobalAlloc

that's true, i played with it and it was a few bytes extra than the actual biSizeImage, but using the accurate size didn't make any difference


> actual problem is that for a 32-bit screen capture, biCompression
> is set to BI_BITFIELDS, therefore the bmiColors array that follows
> the header contains three DWORD bit-masks, meaning that the pixel
> data starts 12 bytes after the bfOffBits value that you calculated

that was spot on as usual! I assumed there was no palette for high color bitmaps. Thanks Jim!

(how come ALL samples in the documentation are mostly wrong and don't mention this age old issue?)



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