Description

Loads the specified Microsoft Device Independent Bitmap file. If it is V4 or V5 format and contains ICC embedded profile, during loading the pixel values are transformed into sRGB color space. Alpha Channel will be lost.

This function supports both bottom-up and top-down DIBs. Top-down DIBs are converted to regular bottom-up DIBs during loading.

Syntax

Long LoadDIBFromFileExt(FileName As String)

Remarks

FileName

String

The file name of a DIB (*.BMP) format file.

Return value

The device independent bitmap loaded from the file. 0 if error occurred.

Note:

This method does not free the DIB.  Call the DropDIB Method to free up the DIB