DrvDitherColor

The DrvDitherColor function requests the device to create a brush dithered against a device palette.

ULONG
  DrvDitherColor(
    IN DHPDEV  dhpdev,
    IN ULONG  iMode,
    IN ULONG  rgb,
    OUT ULONG  *pul
    );

Parameters

dhpdev

Handle to the PDEV structure that describes the physical device against whose palettes the specified color should be dithered.

iMode

Determines the palette to dither against. This parameter can be one of the following values:

Value	Meaning
DM_DEFAULT	The driver should create a dither for the native, default color space of the device. For example, if the device is running at 16bpp, the resulting dither should be in a 16bpp format.
DM_MONOCHROME	The driver should create the dither for monochrome color space; that is, the dither should be returned as a 1bpp bitmap.

rgb

Specifies the RGB color that is to be dithered.

pul

Pointer to the memory location that receives the dithering information. Memory must have been allocated for a standard-format bitmap with dithered brush dimensions cxDither by cyDither. These dimensions are members of the DEVINFO structure. The bitmap format is determined by the iDitherFormat member of the DEVINFO structure.

Return Value

The return value is DCR_DRIVER if the dither values have been calculated by the driver, DCR_SOLID if the engine should use the best solid color approximation of the color, or DCR_HALFTONE if the engine should create a halftone approximation for the driver.

Headers

Declared in winddi.h. Include winddi.h.

Comments

The result of the dither is a set of device color indices stored in pul. A brush created using these colors for its pattern should be a good approximation of the given color rgb.

DrvDitherColor is an optional function that is called only if cxDither and cyDither are nonzero. Monochrome device drivers, including most raster printers, should use the iMode parameter to tell GDI how to get good gray-scale patterns.

See Also

DEVINFO, DrvEnablePDEV