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Home >> Visual C++ / C++ >> Graphics & Multimedia >> GDI


CMetaFile class
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Robert Caldecott (view profile)
December 6, 1998

The CMetaFile class is derived from CMetaFileDC and allows you to easily load metafiles from disk and display them. A metafile can also be displayed with various alignment options, in order to preserve aspect ratio, etc. The class include serialization, allowing you to embed a metafile into a CDocument, for example.


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To use the class, simply include "meta.h" and create an instance:

CMetaFile m_meta;

To load a metafile from disk use one of the CMetaFile::Read functions. One takes a pointer to a filename string, the other a pointer to a pre-opened CFile object. The Read function will return FALSE if an error occurred loading the metafile.

If you want to check if a file is a valid metafile, there is a static CMetaFile::IsMetaFile function you can call. Pass a CFile pointer and the function returns true if it's a valid metafile image.

That's about it. The example project shows how to embed a metafile in a document and display it from a view. Examples of all the alignment options are included.

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