Thread: Bitmap scanning

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    Politics&Cpp geek Da-Nuka's Avatar
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    Bitmap scanning

    I have heard about a function named "Get24BitPixels", which returns a pointer to the first bit in a bitmap or something like that.
    But my compiler(Visual C++ 6.0) could not identify the function.

    Can someone tell me what functions and such, to use, if i want to
    scan through a bitmap, to see and compare each pixels color.
    (Those of you which is really into this might have figured out that i want to make a region fitting to a bitmap.)

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    and the hat of int overfl Salem's Avatar
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    Perhaps reading more of the tutorial where google found it would help
    http://www.flipcode.com/articles/art...n32skins.shtml

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    Ok yeah that didn't sound like an API function.. I found this code:

    Code:
    BYTE* Get24BitPixels(HBITMAP pBitmap, WORD *pwWidth, WORD *pwHeight)
    {
      // a bitmap object just to get bitmap width and height
    	BITMAP bmpBmp;
    
      // pointer to original bitmap info
    	LPBITMAPINFO pbmiInfo;
    
      // bitmap info will hold the new 24bit bitmap info
      BITMAPINFO bmiInfo;
    
      // width and height of the bitmap
      WORD wBmpWidth, wBmpHeight;
    
      // ---------------------------------------------------------
      // get some info from the bitmap
      // ---------------------------------------------------------
    	GetObject(pBitmap, sizeof(bmpBmp),&bmpBmp);
      pbmiInfo   = (LPBITMAPINFO)&bmpBmp;
    
      // get width and height
    	wBmpWidth  = (WORD)pbmiInfo->bmiHeader.biWidth;
    	wBmpWidth -= (wBmpWidth%4);                       // width is 4 byte boundary aligned.
    	wBmpHeight = (WORD)pbmiInfo->bmiHeader.biHeight;
    
      // copy to caller width and height parms
      *pwWidth  = wBmpWidth;
      *pwHeight = wBmpHeight;
      // ---------------------------------------------------------
    
    	// allocate width * height * 24bits pixels
      BYTE *pPixels = new BYTE[wBmpWidth*wBmpHeight*3];
    	if (!pPixels) return NULL;
    
      // get user desktop device context to get pixels from
    	HDC hDC = GetWindowDC(NULL);
    
      // fill desired structure
    	bmiInfo.bmiHeader.biSize = sizeof(BITMAPINFOHEADER);
    	bmiInfo.bmiHeader.biWidth = wBmpWidth;
    	bmiInfo.bmiHeader.biHeight = -wBmpHeight;
    	bmiInfo.bmiHeader.biPlanes = 1;
    	bmiInfo.bmiHeader.biBitCount = 24;
    	bmiInfo.bmiHeader.biCompression = BI_RGB;
    	bmiInfo.bmiHeader.biSizeImage = wBmpWidth*wBmpHeight*3;
    	bmiInfo.bmiHeader.biXPelsPerMeter = 0;
    	bmiInfo.bmiHeader.biYPelsPerMeter = 0;
    	bmiInfo.bmiHeader.biClrUsed = 0;
    	bmiInfo.bmiHeader.biClrImportant = 0;
    
      // get pixels from the original bitmap converted to 24bits
      int iRes = GetDIBits(hDC,pBitmap,0,wBmpHeight,(LPVOID)pPixels,&bmiInfo,DIB_RGB_COLORS);
    
      // release the device context
    	ReleaseDC(NULL,hDC);
    
      // if failed, cancel the operation.
    	if (!iRes)
      {
        delete pPixels;
        return NULL;
      };
    
      // return the pixel array
    	return pPixels;
    }
    From this article.

    [edit]
    Oops Salem beat me in with the same tactics.
    [/edit]

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