ICDrawOpen

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The ICDrawOpen macro opens a driver that can draw images with the specified format.

HIC ICDrawOpen(

DWORD fccType,
DWORD fccHandler,
LPBITMAPINFOHEADER lpbiIn
);

Parameters
fccType

Four-character code indicating the type of driver to open. For video streams, the value of this parameter is "VIDC" or ICTYPE_VIDEO.

fccHandler

Four-character code indicating the preferred stream handler to use. Typically, this information is stored in the stream header in an AVI file.

lpbiIn

Address of the structure defining the input format. A driver handle will not be returned unless it can decompress this format. For images, this parameter refers to a BITMAPINFOHEADER structure.

Return Values
Returns a handle of a driver if successful or zero otherwise.

Remarks
The ICDrawOpen macro is defined as follows:

#define ICDrawOpen(fccType, fccHandler, lpbiIn) \
ICLocate(fccType, fccHandler, lpbiIn, NULL, ICMODE_DRAW);