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[Kaimonington]

if I have a picturebox, I can do picturebox.point to get the colour of a certain place in the picture, but say if I just had a picture stored as an stdpicture, How could I get the colour of a certain place in the picture? I cant just do stdpicture.point.

[LaVolpe]

You are correct. The pixel color you want can be obtained two different ways
1. Load or daw the picture into a DC (i.e., PictureBox) then use VB's Point or GetPixel API to retrieve the color
2. Load the picture in a DIB (windows bitmap storage object), then retrieve the pixel via GetDIBits or other similar methods.

The stdPicture object is simply a container for the image. That object has very few methods/procedures.

[Kaimonington]

what is stdpicture.render then?

[LaVolpe]

what is stdpicture.render then?

It is a function to draw the image within the stdPicture to a destination DC. That niffty function emulates many API functions (depending on what image type is in stdPicture): BitBlt, StretchBlt, DrawIcon, DrawIconEx and double BitBlts for transparent gifs -- once for mask, once for color.