Transparent Blitting

Hiyas,

I know the standard method of transparent blitting with BitBlt... However, in this case, I cannot have a 2nd black and white image mask.

I have a BMP, and I'm using the colour purple for areas I want transparent...

How can I blit with this image?

Thanks,

-Git

TransparentBlt - It's not supported by Msoft, memory leaks GALORE! Stuff like that, but if it's your only option... Well, I believe that somewhere there is code to let you blit tranparently (3 steps?) without a mask.

Or you could generate a mask at runtime
Or use directdraw and a colorkey