You can access TBitmap through an HBITMAP or as a BITMAP structure.

To get an HBITMAP from a TBitmap object, use the HBITMAP() operator with the TBitmap object as the parameter. The HBITMAP() operator, listed below, is almost never explicitly invoked:

HBITMAP GetHBitmap(TBitmap &bitmap)
{
 return bitmap;
}

This code automatically invokes the HBITMAP() conversion operator to cast the TBitmap object to the correct type. To convert a TBitmap object to a BITMAP structure, use the TBitmap::GetObject function:

bool GetBitmap(BITMAP far& dest)
{
 TBitmap bitmap(200, 100);
 return bitmap.GetObject(dest);
}

The GetObject function fills out only the width, height, and color format information of the BITMAP structure. You can get the actual bitmap bits with the TBitmap::GetBitmapBits function.

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