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- From: chris@chrism.demon.co.uk (Chris Marriott)
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- Subject: Re: How do I rotate text or a bitmap?
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- References: <1993Jan7.211926.11912@physics.ucla.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 19:30:30 +0000
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- In article <1993Jan7.211926.11912@physics.ucla.edu> mmccarri@physics.ucla.edu writes:
-
- >I could rotate a bitmap pixel by pixel, but it seems like a
- >lot of work given the various color formats. Is there an
- >easier (and faster) way?
- >
-
- Write your application under Win32s and use the "World Transforms" that
- Win32 gives you. Rotation is then just as easy as translation and
- scaling now are.
-
- >Speaking of bitmaps, I am drawing a large, multi-color bitmap
- >(a frequeny-time spectrogram) using the Rectangle() function
- >to fill in each df dt block. This also seems like too much
- >work since I have to create a pen and a brush with the desired
- >color, select these objects, draw the rectangle, and then delete
- >both objects. This is repeated 100,000 times or so and is very
- >slow. I experimented with the SetPixel() function instead, but
- >it is even slower! Also, SetPixel() will not dither the color
- >if I am running on a paletteless display. Any suggestions?
- >
-
- 1. Use PatBlt rather than Rectangle - it's a lot faster.
- 2. Create all the brushes you need at the start, do the drawing,
- then delete all the brushes at the end.
- 3. SetPixel will *never* create a dithered colour, whether or not
- the display is palette-based.
-
- >Thanks,
- >-Mike-
- >--
- >Dr. Michael McCarrick UCLA Department of Physics
- >Plasma Physics Lab 405 Hilgard Avenue
- >mmccarri@physics.ucla.edu Los Angeles, CA 90024
- >
-
- Chris
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