Re: FW: Blit operation failed on MSWindows

[Fred Kiefer]

Adam Fedor wrote:
> This seems fine to me. Anyone have a comment or can I add it?
> 

Fine for me as well. I am just still not able to work under Windows,
thats why I stayed out of that thread.

> 
> From: Marc Brünink [mailto:mbruen@smartsoft.de]
>>>If I trust
>>>http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/gdi/ 
>>>bitmaps_6ig4.asp
>>>AlphaBlend should work since Windows 98. Further I've a Windows 2000  
>>>SP4 machine on which AlphaBlend seems to work. At least the tab  
>>>images are shown. But I also have a Windows 2000 SP4 machine on which  
>>>the AlphaBlend function returns the error described above. Perhaps  
>>>it's a hardware issue???
>>>
>>>Marc
> 
> Until this issue is clarified I suggest a fallback to BitBlt:
> 
> success = AlphaBlend(hDC,
>                               x, y, (rectFrom.right - rectFrom.left), h,
>                               sourceDC,
>                               rectFrom.left, rectFrom.top,
>                               (rectFrom.right - rectFrom.left), h,  
> blendFunc);
> if(success)
>          break;