Need help with BitBlt

[billboomop]

I have recently discovered Bitblt and Stretchblt, they are great. However, something caught my attention... You cannot bitblt an invisible object, so I tried to load one in from another file. I couldn't get this to work. My question is, how can you make bitblt work in such a way that you don't have to have the picture being bitblt'ed on the screen? Or am I using the wrong API?

[Vlatko]

What do yoy mean You cannot bitblt an invisible object. I have made a piciewer and i bitblt the picture that is inside an Invisible Picture Box. It Works.
To bad this doesn't work in VC++.

[Mad Compie]

Set the AutoRedraw property of a picture box to True and make it invisible. The picture will remain after the form loads...

[billboomop]

Okay Thanks.