Re: compatible DC/Bitmap fixes

[Ove Kaaven]

On Sat, 1 Dec 2001, eric pouech wrote:
> as Marcus reported, the console was only working in black & white
> the cause of the error comes from the following flow
>
> 1/ GetDC (physical and/or display)
> 2/ CreateCompatibleDC (on DC gotten from 1/)
> 3/ CreateCompatibleBitmap (on DC gotten from 2/)

What you *should* do is to call CreateCompatibleBitmap on the DC you got
from GetDC. That's what all the Windows code I know of does.
> the trouble is as follows :
> - when a mem DC is created, its bits per pixel is always set to 1

Yes, that's documented Windows behaviour. You need to select a bitmap into
it to change it. No Windows code expects otherwise.