Stephen Pair wrote:
Yes of course...by bitmap, I think Tim meant "bitmaps that get displayed" (or Form).
Actually, what Tim meant on this occasion was a little joke.
Supporting different pixel formats (it's not just little vs big endian, not by a long way) is a lot more than simply changing the bitmap layout; there's quite large changes to the inner functioning of bitblt etc. Fortunately, Andreas & I spent a couple of years arguing about this and eventually FxBlt and the SurfacePlugin resulted. IIRC most of (even all by now?) FxBlt has migrated into BitBlt over time and I really must get around to trying to use it someday. It's on my list behind minor things like trying to make enough money to keep eating, VI4 & VMbuild projects, repairing half a dozen crunched model planes, making a boatload of furniture etc etc.
tim