Image Initialization Functions

All of these functions will initialize an image and return an image handle to your application. With the ImageMan image handle the image can be rotated, color-reduced, stored to disk, etc...

ImgOpenSolo Opens an image in a stand-alone image file (i.e., a TIFF or PCX file).

ImgOpenDialog Displays a custom File Open Dialog with preview information and opens selected file.

ImgOpenEmbedded Opens an image that is embedded within another file. Useful for working with a database of TIFF images, for instance.

ImgOpenMem Opens an image which resides in a memory block. This is useful when an image is stored as a blob in a database and ImgOpenEmbedded can't be used to access it.

ImgFromClipboard Creates an ImageMan image from the contents of the Clipboard.

ImgFromDIB Creates an ImageMan image from a handle to a packed DIB.

ImgFromWMF Creates an ImageMan image from a Windows Metafile.

ImgClose Releases all information associated with a given ImageMan image handle. The handle will subsequently be invalid. Once the image has been opened and you are through with it, you can call ImgClose to close the image and release all associated memory.