Image Gadget

Hi, I need to add a small GUI start-up window for my series of games.. games that run in their own window or full-screen (after Graphics() command) , so I don't need any canvas. But I'd like to add an image to the GUI window, so I was wondering if someone was able to set up an image-gadget using Win32 API calls directly, it's silly to create a canvas to show just one image. Thanks in advance for any hints.

Do you mean a splash image that appears on the desktop?

how I did it was (in simplified meta code)

1) copy the desktopbuffer to a spare gfx buffer
2) display the splash image (standard image)
3) copy the spare gfx buffer to the desktopbuffer

Thank you, but I meant a simple image to show in a window. I know I can create a canvas and use DrawImage() to print the image inside, but Windows provides an image gadget type (that B+ doesn't support natively). To use a canvas simply to display an image is a waste of resources in my case.

Man, I see where your coming from! Another idea for you:

Graphics 200,200,32,2
setbuffer backbuffer()
drawimage image,0,0
flip
WaitKey

graphics 640,480,32,0

gamecode....

does this sort it out?