Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!aries!mcdonald
From: mcdonald@aries.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Copying Bitmaps
Message-ID: <1989Oct1.222918.14330@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 1 Oct 89 22:29:18 GMT
Reply-To: mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald)
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I am trying to write a Windows program that draws text on the screen
from non-Windows bitmapped fonts. Question is, what is the fastest
way to copy the bitmaps to the screen? They characters are in
variable size arrays (i.e. variable number of bytes per row and
rows per character). At the present I am using CreateBitmap on
each single character, using Bitblt, and then junking the Windows
Bitmap object. Ugh! Actually on my 20 MHz 286 it is not too slow - 
maybe 1.8 sec per page. But on a 6Mhz AT............ snooooooze time.

Is there a faster way?

Doug McDonald (mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu or mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu)