Hello, I have the following code

	//bitmap

	HMODULE hModule = GetModuleHandle(NULL);
	HRSRC   hRes = FindResource(hModule, pBitmapName, RT_BITMAP);

	if (hRes == NULL)

		return;
	HGLOBAL hGlb = LoadResource(hModule, hRes);
	if (hGlb == NULL)

		return;
	BITMAPINFO * pDIB = (BITMAPINFO *)LockResource(hGlb);
	if (pDIB == NULL)

		return;
	textbmi = *pDIB;

	textDC = CreateCompatibleDC(mDC->GetSafeHdc());

	textbmp = CreateDIBSection(textDC, &textbmi, DIB_RGB_COLORS, (LPVOID *)&lpTextBuffer, 0, 0);

	SelectObject(textDC, textbmp);

Everything looks to execute properly without API null returns - however, lpTextBuffer points to an array of zeros, no my image is not a black bitmap.

Cast to BITMAPINFO* is wrong, it's actually a BITMAPFILEHEADER* . See https://www.opengl.org/discussion_boards/showthread.php/139720-problem-with-loading-textures-from-a-resource-VC, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1651531/loading-an-image-from-memory-gdi and corresponding topics in MSDN.

Hello and thank you for the answer. I ended up accessing the data after the structure BITMAPINFOHEADER to find out it was my pixel data.

Edited September 1, 201510 yr by xSRTsect