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<concept xml:lang="en" id="GUID-3584C6F0-0B9E-5490-9CDB-86FA218A2E26"><title>Loading a Bitmap from a File</title><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><conbody><p>Bitmaps can be stored in multi-bitmap (<filepath>.mbm</filepath>) files, which can be built from <filepath>.bmp</filepath> files as part of the <codeph>abld</codeph> process. This topic provides an example of loading a multi-bitmap file. </p> <p>Loading them has four stages: </p> <ol id="GUID-48EA2A7A-CEEC-587A-A4E3-358F60369183"><li id="GUID-623ACA50-14A7-5573-87AC-BF394ABDBB65"><p>Put the name of the bitmap file into a buffer. </p> </li> <li id="GUID-064AD234-B581-5DEA-8276-DF5E78D1CCF6"><p>Create a bitmap (<codeph>CFbsBitmap</codeph>). </p> </li> <li id="GUID-BA848FFC-23C2-56B9-9AEC-D89945FD1361"><p>Load the bitmap using <codeph>CFbsBitmap::Load()</codeph>. </p> </li> <li id="GUID-48B6560D-96AC-5020-B98D-642549611792"><p>If an error is returned, leave and ensure the bitmap is cleaned up </p> </li> </ol> <codeblock id="GUID-152B03ED-E130-5F78-81AE-3795EBA48208" xml:space="preserve">// set the name of the multi-bitmap file containing the bitmaps

_LIT(KMBMFileName,"z:\\resource\\apps\\grbmap2.mbm");

// load the bitmap from an .mbm file

CFbsBitmap* bitmap = new (ELeave) CFbsBitmap();

CleanupStack::PushL(bitmap);

User::LeaveIfError(bitmap->Load(KMBMFileName, EMbmGrbmap2Smiley));

// EMbmGrbmap2Smiley is the ID of a bitmap in the .mbm file

...

// clean up