Windows 2000 Graphics API

Focuses on three vital Windows graphics programming technologies: the Windows Graphics Device Interface (GDI), DirectDraw, and Image Color Management (ICM) 2.0. Contains in-depth coverage of image manipulation, file format management, and ICM technologies. Teaches how to control every aspect of Windows bitmaps, reliably render/capture images to the printer and other devices, and compressing and decompressing images. Demonstrates how to read and write common image file formats, manipulate images in the pixel and frequency domains and cross-dissolve, warp, and morph images.

Contents

Part I - The Windows GDI

• Chapter 1 Device Contexts 3
• Chapter 2 The Brush Object 83
• Chapter 3 ThePenObject 115
• Chapter 4 The Font Object 151
• Chapter 5 Lines, Curves, and Shapes 207
• Chapter 6 The Bitmap Object 287
• Chapter 7 Device-Independent Bitmaps 355
• Chapter 8 Regions and Paths 437
• Chapter 9 Palettes 499
• Chapter 10 Coordinate Spaces 545

• Chapter 11 The IDirectDraw7 Interface 591
• Chapter 12 DirectDraw Display Modes 651
• Chapter 13 DirectDraw Surfaces 687
• Chapter 14 DirectDraw Clippers 779
• Chapter 15 DirectDraw Colors and Palettes 803

• Chapter 16 Image Color Management 835
• Chapter 17 Image Manipulation 935
• Chapter 18 Image File Formats 1045

• Appendix A - A Brief Review of Matrices and Vectors 1145
• Appendix B - Other Resources 1155