Load a CBitmap dynamically

Question

I have a Bitmap image that i want to load dynamically. But I am unable to load it.

CBitmap bmp;

bmp.LoadBitmap(\"c:\\\\aeimg\");

it does not

Answer 1

CBitmap doesn't support directly reading from a .bmp file. You can instead make use of CImage class as suggested in other answers. You'll need to include atlimage.h in your code to make CImage work:

#include 
:
CImage img;
img.Load (_T("C:\\image.bmp"));
CBitmap bitmap;
bitmap.Attach(img.Detach());

Another way is to load the image using LoadImage Win32 API and then attaching CBitmap to that:

HBITMAP hBitmap = (HBITMAP)LoadImage(NULL,"c:\\image.bmp", 
                                      IMAGE_BITMAP, 0, 0, LR_LOADFROMFILE);
if (hBitmap != NULL) 
   bitmap.Attach(hBitmap);