Fast Image Tiling

I'm trying to tile a lead bitmap onto another lead bitmap.  I've been using L_CombineBitmap but it's very slow.  The only other way that I can think of doing it that would be faster is to do the drawing on a DC then make a new lead bitmap out of that dc's canvas.  Is there a better way?

Karim

L_CombineBitmap is going to be the best way to combine two images into one. 

How slow is "slow"?

How large are the two source images? 

What exactly do you mean by tiling bitmaps onto eachother?  Does this mean you're just pasting one image on top of another or are you stitching the images together in a sense?

Painting to a DC is probably a worse idea because I'm pretty sure that a Microsoft DC requires contiguous memory.  I know that at the least DIBs do.  This would mean that if you are trying to combine large images, you might not have enough memory to accomplish it. 

This is for applying a frame to a 300x300 pixel image. The original image is expanded to fit the frame and then 8 images (4 corner images and 4 side images) are applied.  The side images are tiled for each side.  Each frame image is about 20x20 pixels.

300x300 isn't a very large image.  How long is it taking you to use L_CombineBitmap?

This size of an image should be safe to use L_PaintDC if you wanted to try that route, but I still think L_CombineBitmap is a better option because you're not converting to and from BITMAPHANDLEs and DIBs/DCs.

Understood.  Thanks for the advice.