IWICBitmap interface

Defines methods that add the concept of writeability and static in-memory representations of bitmaps to IWICBitmapSource.

Members

The IWICBitmap interface inherits from IWICBitmapSource. IWICBitmap also has these types of members:

• Methods

Methods

The IWICBitmap interface has these methods.

Remarks

IWICBitmap inherits from IWICBitmapSource and therefore also inherits the CopyPixels method. When pixels need to be moved to a new memory location, CopyPixels is often the most efficient.

Because of to the internal memory representation implied by the IWICBitmap, in-place modification and processing using the Lock is more efficient than CopyPixels, usually reducing to a simple pointer access directly into the memory owned by the bitmap rather than a as a copy. This is contrasted to procedural bitmaps which implement only CopyPixels because there is no internal memory representation and one would need to be created on demand to satisfy a call to Lock.

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