delphi - brcc32 invalid bitmap format (loosing image quality)

Question

I created a delphi component and want to load an image into it at runtime. So i created a .RC file in notepad.

useIdentifer BITMAP "demo.BMP"

When i compiled the file it gave me an error "invalid bitmap format", so I did some research and got the solution that I had to check that the file is 8-bit, so I converted it to bitmap 256 colors using paint, but due to this i lost the quality and pixels of image.

I'm not sure how can i get rid of the error without losing quality of the image.

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66058902/brcc32-invalid-bitmap-format-loosing-image-quality

Answer 1

Use a PNG image instead of a BMP. The answer to this question will tell you how.