Hi, me and my friend are writing a Tetris clone game using Windows GDI, or at least trying to, we need to find out how to display a Bitmap on the screen, we have read examples everywhere, but they get to complicated, can someone please help us? We can get the blocks and everything to fall but we need a block to fall, please someone help.

Make a backbuffer with an HBITMAP.
Load your tiles onto another HBITMAP.
Use PatBlt to clear the backbuffer : PatBlt(WinDC,0,0,Width,Height,BLACKNESS);
Use BitBlt to copy your tiles to the blackbuffer.
Use BitBlt or CopyRect to transfer the backbuffer to the window.


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