Loading JPEGs from resources

[makaveliuk]

I am trying to display a high colour splash screen on my app, using the bitmap resource caused it to become 16 colour and look awful.

I have managed to display it using GDI+ and load the JPEG file, but I would ideally like it to be a built-in resource, so I have created a custom resource and imported the JPEG, but I cannot get it to load it from the resource.

Any ideas how to do it? Or maybe a way round the colour problem?

 

[woja]

How are you attempting to load it from the resources? Custom resources need to be handled differently from "ordinary" ones...

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Roger
Life is a game of cards in which the deck contains only jokers.[/tt]

 

[makaveliuk]

I was loading the resource with FindResource() and LockResource() then using allocating and copying into memory to be used as an IStream, then I attempt to load it with Gdiplus::Bitmap::FromStream() but it does not display anything when I come to draw the image.

 

[woja]

Have a look at faq116-1096, which gives lots of information on loadeing images.

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Roger
Life is a game of cards in which the deck contains only jokers.[/tt]

 

[RileyCat]

The link to the MSDN article at

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/01/10/c/c0110.asp

... comes up as no longer available. Any clues where to get the information contained in the article?

I too am looking for how to insert a jpg image in my mfc app.

 

[RileyCat]

Found it -- or at least something similar ...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/01/10/c/default.aspx