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<concept xml:lang="en" id="GUID-A3EBB297-1494-579C-83D5-8FDBBD01B674"><title>Drawing Bitmaps</title><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><conbody><p>This topic provides example code that demonstrates blitting a bitmap to the screen, blitting a rectangular piece of a bitmap to the screen and blitting a bitmap under a mask. </p> <p>These examples assume that <codeph>bitmap</codeph> is a pointer to a valid <codeph>CFbsBitmap</codeph> object. </p> <section><title>Bitmap block transfer</title> <p>Use <codeph>CBitmapContext::BitBlt()</codeph> to blit a <codeph>CFbsBitmap</codeph> to the screen. </p> <codeblock id="GUID-C40381A2-3729-5606-824F-7208421C76C2" xml:space="preserve">// draw the bitmap using bitmap block transfer

TPoint pos(50,50);

gc.BitBlt(pos, bitmap);</codeblock> </section> <section><title>Block transfer of a rectangular piece of a bitmap</title> <p>You can blit a rectangular piece of a bitmap to the screen. </p> <codeblock id="GUID-F216FE85-C2B4-586B-86D1-F6C859FA9891" xml:space="preserve">...

// set a rectangle for the top-left quadrant of the source bitmap

TSize bmpSizeInPixels=bitmap->SizeInPixels();

TSize bmpPieceSize(bmpSizeInPixels.iWidth/2,bmpSizeInPixels.iHeight/2);

TRect bmpPieceRect(TPoint(0,0),bmpPieceSize); 

// blit only the piece of the bitmap indicated by bmpPieceRect

TPoint pos(100,100);

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

CleanupStack::PushL(maskBitmap);

User::LeaveIfError(maskBitmap->

  Load(multiBitmapFile,EMbmGrbmap2Smilmask));

// Calculate rectangle for the whole bitmap

TRect bmpPieceRect(TPoint(0,0),bitmap->SizeInPixels());

// Blit using a masking bitmap, with no inversion

gc.BitBltMasked(TPoint(50,50),bitmap,bmpPieceRect,maskBitmap,EFalse);

...

// clean up

CleanupStack::PopAndDestroy();

</codeblock> <p><b>Notes </b> </p> <ul><li id="GUID-4CDB8020-D42D-517D-BA3A-2D6FDD2DEA33"><p>Unlike with an ordinary <codeph>BitBlit()</codeph>, with <codeph>BitBltMasked()</codeph> you always have to specify what part of the bitmap to display: here we just set <codeph>bmpPieceRect</codeph> so that the whole bitmap is displayed. </p> </li> <li id="GUID-67FFCC84-B364-50DF-ACDA-54FF865FB423"><p>If the mask bitmap is smaller than the source bitmap, then it is tiled across the bitmap. </p> </li> <li id="GUID-A2A17DA3-5B03-56EF-B5FE-E6C8837F26F6"><p>For an inverted mask, set the last argument to <codeph>BitBltMasked()</codeph> to <codeph>ETrue</codeph>. </p> </li> </ul> </section> </conbody><related-links><link href="GUID-AFE8A9CC-E026-5396-8E0C-616338B5F5C3.dita"><linktext>BitGDI Tutorials</linktext> </link> <link href="GUID-EAAD1719-C02C-5705-A5C3-993E36441BE6.dita"><linktext>BitGDI Component</linktext> </link> </related-links></concept>