PD>I'm looking for some GPI-functions for grabbing a rectangle from my window.
PD>Currently I'm working on a library for sprites.  My idea is
PD>before actually putting a sprite (=bitmap) on the screen, I
PD>have to save the information that will be overwritten by my
PD>sprite.  So when I move my sprite to another position, I'll
PD>be able to restore the background.

PD>Thus I need a function (like Borland's GETIMAGE) to capture the contents of
PD>an area of pels (e.g. in a bitmap).  Unther DOS it's simple
PD>: just look in the videomemory.

Check out DLIB06.ZIP, it is a high-performance graphics library which
includes sprites for OS/2.  It also will tell you one way to do what you
want to do.

Rob.
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