selecting-a-graphic-object-into-a-device-context.md

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Selecting a Graphic Object into a Device Context

This topic applies to using graphic objects in a window's device context. After you create a drawing object, you must select it into the device context in place of the default object stored there:

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Lifetime of Graphic Objects

The graphic object returned by SelectObject is "temporary." That is, it will be deleted by the OnIdle member function of class CWinApp the next time the program gets idle time. As long as you use the object returned by SelectObject in a single function without returning control to the main message loop, you will have no problem.

What do you want to know more about

• Graphic objects

• One-stage and two-stage construction of graphic objects

• Device contexts

• Drawing in a View

See also

Graphic Objects