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Dim arrBmp As New Bitmap(Width, Height, stride, Imaging.PixelFormat.Format16bppGrayScale, pBuf)
Me.CurrentBitmap = New Bitmap(arrBmp, arrBmp.size)
gch.Free()

Michael Schäuble wrote:

your own idea Wink from an older thread.

byte[] bytes=new byte[32*1024];
GCHandle handle=GCHandle.Alloc(bytes, GCHandleType.Pinned);
IntPtr ptr=handle.AddrOfPinnedObject();
// no exceptions:   Format16bppArgb1555, Format16bppRgb565, Format16bppRgb555,
//          Format1bppIndexed, Format8bppIndexed, Format32bppRgb
// exceptions:      Format16bppGrayScale
Bitmap bm1=new Bitmap(16, 16, 1024, PixelFormat.Format8bppIndexed, ptr);
log("bm1 OK");
Bitmap bm4=new Bitmap(1000, 1000);
Graphics g=Graphics.FromImage(bm4);
g.DrawImage(bm1, 0, 0);
log("bm4 drawn");
Bitmap bm2=new Bitmap(bm1);
bm1.Dispose();
handle.Free();
Bitmap bm3=new Bitmap(bm2);
bm2.Dispose();
log("size ="+bm3.Size);
bm3.Dispose();

Luc Pattyn

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Liqz wrote:

so it will be interesting for me also to see other people's responses