IPicture interface
Manages a picture object and its properties. Picture objects provide a language-neutral abstraction for bitmaps, icons, and metafiles. As with the standard font object, the system provides a standard implementation of the picture object. Its primary interfaces are IPicture and IPictureDisp, the latter being derived from IDispatch to provide access to the picture's properties through Automation. A picture object is created with OleCreatePictureIndirect.
The picture object also supports the outgoing interface IPropertyNotifySink, so a client can determine when picture properties change. Because the picture object supports at least one outgoing interface, it also implements IConnectionPointContainer and its associated interfaces for this purpose.
The picture object also supports IPersistStream so that it can save and load itself from an instance of IStream. An object that uses a picture object internally would normally save and load the picture as part of the object's own persistence handling. The function OleLoadPicture simplifies the creation of a picture object based on stream contents.
When to implement
Typically, you use the OLE-provided picture object, which provides the IPicture and IPictureDisp interfaces for you. The IPicture interface is the primary interface implemented by the OLE-provided picture object. It allows the caller to manage picture properties and to use that picture in graphical rendering.
When to use
Use this interface to change the properties of a picture object.
Members
The IPicture interface inherits from the IUnknown interface. IPicture also has these types of members:
Methods
The IPicture interface has these methods.
| Method | Description |
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| get_Attributes |
Retrieves the current set of the picture's bit attributes. |
| get_CurDC |
Retrieves the current device context into which this picture is selected. |
| get_Handle |
Retrieves a handle to the picture managed within this picture object. |
| get_Height |
Retrieves the current height of the picture in the picture object. |
| get_hPal |
Retrieves the current palette of the picture. |
| get_KeepOriginalFormat |
Retrieves the current value of the picture object's KeepOriginalFormat property. |
| get_Type |
Retrieves the current type of the picture. |
| get_Width |
Retrieves the current width of the picture in the picture object. |
| PictureChanged |
Notifies the picture object that its picture resource changed. |
| put_KeepOriginalFormat |
Sets the picture object's KeepOriginalFormat property. |
| Render |
Draws the specified portion of the picture onto the specified device context, positioned at the specified location. |
| SaveAsFile |
Saves the picture's data into a stream in the same format that it would save itself into a file. |
| SelectPicture |
Selects a bitmap picture into a given device context, returning the device context in which the picture was previously selected as well as the picture's handle. |
| set_hPal |
Sets the current palette of the picture. |
Remarks
Each property in the IPicture interface includes a get_PropertyName method if the property supports read access and a put_PropertyName method if the property supports write access.
| Property | Type | Access | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Handle | OLE_HANDLE (int) | R | The Windows GDI handle of the picture |
| hPal | OLE_HANDLE (int) | RW | The Windows handle of the palette used by the picture. |
| Type | short | R | The type of picture (see PICTYPE). |
| Width | OLE_XSIZE_HIMETRIC (long) | R | The width of the picture. |
| Height | OLE_YSIZE_HIMETRIC (long) | R | The height of the picture. |
| CurDC | HDC | R | The current device context. |
| KeepOriginalFormat | BOOL | RW | If TRUE, the picture object maintains the entire original state of the picture in memory. If FALSE, any state not applicable to the user's computer is discarded. |
| Attributes | DWORD | R | Miscellaneous bit attributes of the picture. |
OLE Implementation
Picture objects provide a language-neutral abstraction for bitmaps, icons, and metafiles. As with the standard font object, the system provides a standard implementation of the picture object. Its primary interfaces are IPicture and IPictureDisp. A picture object is created with OleCreatePictureIndirect and supports both the IPicture and the IPictureDisp interfaces.
The OLE-provided picture object implements the complete semantics of the IPicture and IPictureDisp interfaces.
Requirements
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Minimum supported client |
Windows 2000 Professional [desktop apps only] |
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Minimum supported server |
Windows 2000 Server [desktop apps only] |
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IID |
IID_IPicture is defined as 7BF80980-BF32-101A-8BBB-00AA00300CAB |
See also