CBits Property

Applies To: Bitmap, Clipboard, Icon

Description

The CBits property represents the pixels that make up a picture..

CBits provides an alternative representation to that provided by the Bits and CMap properties which apply only to images with 256 colours or under. CBits may be used to represent both low-colour and high-colour images.

CBits is a rank-2 numeric array whose dimensions represent the rows and columns of pixels in the image. The values in CBits represent the colour of each pixel and (for an Icon) its transparency.

For a Bitmap, the colour value of each pixel is obtained by encoding the red, green and blue components, that is:

      PIXEL←256⊥RED GREEN BLUE

where RED, GREEN and BLUE are numbers in the range 0-255.