So now I'm wondering if Windows provides any easy way to load and save 
bitmapped images. GDI appears to allow you to load and save in Windows 
Bitmap format - arguably amoung the worst file formats *ever*. But what 
about something more sane?

Well, DirectX doesn't seem to have anything useful. (Gotta love the way 
half the stuff on MSDN turns out only to be applicable to Windows 7. 
Yeah, like I really care about that...) I did eventually find something 
that appears to do exactly what I want. Not quite sure which versions of 
Windows support it, but it looks interesting.

Reading further, it seems you have to link this special file into your 
application. (That can't be good...) And then it starts talking about 
something called COM, and I got *completely* lost.

...so now I'm trying to figure out what the hell COM is. :-/

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