Does anyone know how to get the handle of a bitmap? For example, I have the picture "pic.bmp" on my desktop- how do i make/get a handle for it?

It should be like any file i/o. Just make a pointer to a file, for instance:

FILE *bitMapHandle;

then just use fopen() like this:

bitMapHandle = fopen("pic.bmp", "r");

remember to check to make sure it doesn''t return NULL (in which case it couldn''t find the file). Happy coding

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