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<concept xml:lang="en" id="GUID-E1FFE8AB-9C4C-51DB-AC08-F0A18C33D735"><title>Creating a Bitmap by Duplicating</title><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><conbody><p>This topic provides an example that shows the creation of a bitmap by the duplication of another bitmap. </p> <codeblock id="GUID-BE48C386-E323-5E4B-908C-FFE017FC4B1D" xml:space="preserve">// create bitmap 3 as a duplicate of bitmap 2
iBitmap3 = new (ELeave) CFbsBitmap();
User::LeaveIfError(iBitmap3-&gt;Duplicate(iBitmap2-&gt;Handle()));</codeblock> <p> <b>Note</b>: The deletion of bitmap 2 would not affect bitmap 3 in any way. </p> </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>