reading a bitmap

[foxnet]

I am trying to develop a simple card game and use a 800x600 bitmap (created through MS Paint) as a background image. I display the cards also in a bitmap image. My problem comes when I try to remove the cards, I redraw the entire background bitmap again, which causes parts of the screen to flicker. I was planning on creating a 800x600 array to store the pixel information from the bitmap and only redraw the background from the array. Is there a command that returns the pixel value, so I can store this in an array ? Or is there a better way to obtain these results ? Thanks

 

[dEVooXiAm]

While I suppose you have HBITMAP of you background image, try using GetBitmapBits()

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