Chapter 21: Displaying an image

This chapter discusses the display of image buffers, in detail. It shows you how to display several images simultaneously, and discusses some of the special display effects that can be achieved.

• Overview
• Supported hardware acceleration modes
• Types of displays
• • Windowed display
  • Exclusive display
  • Auxiliary display
  • Network display
• Displaying buffers of different data depths
• • M_BIT_SHIFT
  • M_AUTO_SCALE
  • M_MULTI_BYTES
  • M_TRANSPARENT
• Displaying an image in a user-defined window
• • Using MdispSelectWindow()
• Removing a buffer from the display
• Displaying multiple buffers
• Screen tearing
• Panning and zooming
• • Explicitly specifying the amount to pan and zoom
  • Panning and zooming the display interactively
• Annotating the displayed image non-destructively
• • Annotating images using the overlay mechanism
  • • Overlay buffer behavior
    • Calibration and overlay considerations
    • Transparency (Keying)
  • Using a graphics list
  • Using GDI annotations
• Mapping 1-band images through a LUT upon display
• • Selecting the LUT to use for display
  • Restrictions when displaying using LUT