Hi,

        I have written a program which loaded a bitmap to a timage
and then cut part of the bitmap on the timage to another timage and
save it in a bitmap file. My problem is that, the bitmap I loaded
in the timage is a 8 bit bitmap. However, after I use CopyRect to
cut the useful part of the image to the new timage and saved it on
a file, it become a 24 bit bitmap. Can anyone tell me if there is
any easy method to save it as a 8 bit bitmap instead. Thanks in
advance.

Roy

 Cheng> Hi, I have written a program which loaded a bitmap to a timage
 Cheng> and then cut part of the bitmap on the timage to another
 Cheng> timage and save it in a bitmap file. My problem is that, the
 Cheng> bitmap I loaded in the timage is a 8 bit bitmap. However,
 Cheng> after I use CopyRect to cut the useful part of the image to
 Cheng> the new timage and saved it on a file, it become a 24 bit
 Cheng> bitmap. Can anyone tell me if there is any easy method to save
 Cheng> it as a 8 bit bitmap instead. Thanks in advance.

I'm not sure this is correct:
The 8 bit you load has a pallete, not? Try assigning this pallete to
the image component prior to calling copyRect.

This should make it 8 bit (But a nicer/more correct solution may exist).

Mads

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