Hennie,

Sorry I should have expanded the example a bit more. The thing I left out was a call to BitBlt() to transfer the bitmap to the display context.

void DrawBitmap(CDC& dc, CBitmap* pbm)
{
   CDC dcMem;
   BOOL bReturn;

   dcMem.CreateCompatibleDC(&dc);
   CBitmap* pOldBitmap = dcMem.SelectObject(pbm);

   *!* Copy bits from bitmap to display context, parameters
   *!* intentionally left out.
   dc.BitBlit(.....)

   *!* Now use the GDI to perform further rendering.
   dc.DrawText(data, -1, r, DT_CENTER ); 

   dcMem.SelectObject(pOldBitmap);
 }

If you have any more problems then I will dig out Visual C++ and create a sample project for you.

HTH
Neil