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Reading bmp resource file into RGBQUAD array.

Hi.

I have a problem to read a BMP file data into RGB BYTE array.
The BITMAPINFO struct contain RGBQUAD array ‘bmiColor[] ‘, while I’m trying to load from resource a bitmap to the BITMAPINFO struct, I get the bmiColor points to the resource file as is. Therefore the RGBQUAD become redundant in case of bitmap with only RGB values instead of RGBA values.
If I now try to go with for loop on bmiColor[] array and get the values
bmiColor[i] .rgbBlue,
bmiColor[i] .rgbGreen,
bmiColor[i] .rgbRed and
bmiColor[i] .rgbReserved

The values I’ll get is as follow:

bmiColor[i] .rgbBlue = blue value,
bmiColor[i] .rgbGreen = green value,
bmiColor[i] .rgbRed = red value
bmiColor[i] .rgbReserved = the next blue value
bmiColor[i] .rgbBlue = the next green value
bmiColor[i] .rgbGreen = the next red value,
bmiColor[i] .rgbRed = the next blue value
bmiColor[i] .rgbReserved = the next green value and so on.

There is any other simple way to get the bmiColor point to a filled in RGBQUAD array?

My code to load the bitmap from resource is as follow:

void BitmapRes::UpdateBitmapFromResource(HINSTANCE hCurInst, long lIDB)
{
HRSRC hRsrc;
if( hRsrc = FindResource( hCurInst, MAKEINTRESOURCE lIDB),
RT_BITMAP) )
{
HGLOBAL hGlobal = LoadResource( hCurInst, hRsrc ) ;
m_bmpData = (LPBITMAPCOREINFO)LockResource(hGlobal ) ;
UnlockResource( hGlobal );
}
}

Then get the values as follow:

unsigned char *m_Image = new unsigned char[size];
for( int i=0; i < size; ++i )
{
m_Image[4*i]=m_bmpData ->bmciColors[i].rgbRed;
m_Image[4*i+1]=m_bmpData ->bmciColors[i].rgbGreen;
m_Image[4*i+2]= m_bmpData ->bmciColors[i].rgbBlue;
m_Image[4*i+3] = 1;
}

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Itzike

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So how can I get the bitmap data in to bytes array?

pjknibbs

It already IS in a byte array--if you load the bitmap directly from a file on disk into memory, the first few bytes are a BITMAPFILEHEADER structure like this:

typedef struct tagBITMAPFILEHEADER {
WORD bfType;
DWORD bfSize;
WORD bfReserved1;
WORD bfReserved2;
DWORD bfOffBits;
} BITMAPFILEHEADER, *PBITMAPFILEHEADER;

(This is defined in the Windows header files somewhere). Anyway, the bfOffBits member tells you the offset from the beginning of the file to where the raw bitmap data is stored. (The BITMAPINFO structure immediately follows the BITMAPFILEHEADER, should you need to extract colour depth information, palettes, or what-have-you).

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