displaying bitmap

I have a program which acquires images using a camera .Every thing is fine as long as it is not displaying images.
But i need to display images.I m using DIBs in this case.
I hav narrowed the bug to the DIBINFO header.

im fillig out the DIBINFO header like this

BITMAPINFO buf;

buf.bmiHeader.biSize = sizeof(BITMAPINFOHEADER);
buf.bmiHeader.biWidth = width;
buf.bmiHeader.biHeight = height;
buf.bmiHeader.biPlanes = 1;
buf.bmiHeader.biBitCount = 8;
buf.bmiHeader.biCompression = BI_RGB;
buf.bmiHeader.biSizeImage = width*height;
buf.bmiHeader.biXPelsPerMeter = 0;
buf.bmiHeader.biYPelsPerMeter = 0;
buf.bmiHeader.biClrUsed = 256;
buf.bmiHeader.biClrImportant = 0;
buf.bmiColors[0].rgbBlue = buf.bmiColors[0].rgbGreen = buf.bmiColors[0].rgbRed = 0;
buf.bmiColors[0].rgbReserved = 0;



I hope everthing is self explenatory.
Is there anything wrong in the I way fill it out.
OR is there any other way i can display images got from a camera ?

I realy don't know much about the bitmap format but it seams you have set the header to an 8 bit bitmap with 256 colors but set the compresion too BI_RGB which I think requires at least 24 bits sine (R)ed (G)reen and (B)lue would each use 8 bits. For a 256 bit image I think you need a pallate of colors. I'm sorry if I'm not correct this is just a though.

thanx any way
but i need more than tat :(
can anyone tell me how to display images got from a camera real time

any method will do ,not just DIBs

no text book provides tat help

Heeeelp

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Originally Posted by sohnythomas

can anyone tell me how to display images got from a camera real time

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Hi shony,

One way of capturing images from a camera would be to develop a compatible video capturing driver for the camera. You will need to go through the Windows DDK documentation to be able to build one.
Where do u plan to display these images? on some application that u build?

>>can anyone tell me how to display images got from a camera real time

what format do you get the images in?



Search here for 'buffering' or 'double buffering'.

This uses CreateCompatibleDC() and CreateCompatibleBitmap() in which you store the image.
When the image changes you draw the new image to the buffer DC.

Then call for the apps screen to be painted (WM_PAINT msg)

In the WM_PAINT handler you draw the buffer DC to the screen DC (got from the paint msg function BeginPaint() )

i already know how to get an image from camera
but the problem is displaying it
the image is stored in array of datatype BYTE or DWORD

but im not able to display it on the screen

i will check in to u r suggestion anyway, thanx

Have you tried......
CreateCompatibleDC()
CreateCompatibleBitmap() // the same size as your image

then SetDIBits() to copy your image to the BMP

In the paint handler BitBlt() your image to the HDC returned by BeginPaint()

I don't think it will work (at differing screen colour depths).



these pieces are cut from a screen capture function of mine (where I have the image as a bmp and I am copying it)

You would need to SetDIBits() to copy your array to the bmp (ie transfer image to new blank bmp)

In your case cClrBits = 8

Code:

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    PBITMAPINFO pbmi;
   

    pbmi = (PBITMAPINFO) GlobalAlloc(LPTR, sizeof(BITMAPINFOHEADER)+sizeof(RGBQUAD)*(1<< cClrBits));

//error check removed

    pbmi->bmiHeader.biSize = sizeof(BITMAPINFOHEADER);
    pbmi->bmiHeader.biWidth = bmp.bmWidth;
    pbmi->bmiHeader.biHeight = bmp.bmHeight;
    pbmi->bmiHeader.biPlanes = bmp.bmPlanes;
    pbmi->bmiHeader.biBitCount = bmp.bmBitsPixel;
    if (cClrBits < 24)
        pbmi->bmiHeader.biClrUsed = (1<<cClrBits);

    // If the bitmap is not compressed, set the BI_RGB flag.
    pbmi->bmiHeader.biCompression = BI_RGB;


    // For Windows NT, the width must be DWORD aligned unless
    // the bitmap is RLE compressed.
    // For Windows 95/98/Me, the width must be WORD aligned unless the
    // bitmap is RLE compressed.
    pbmi->bmiHeader.biSizeImage = ((pbmi->bmiHeader.biWidth * cClrBits +31) & ~31) /8
                                  * pbmi->bmiHeader.biHeight;
    // Set biClrImportant to 0, indicating that all of the
    // device colors are important.
    pbmi->bmiHeader.biClrImportant = 0;

//next function
//set header
    BITMAPFILEHEADER hdr;      // bitmap file-header

    hdr.bfType = 0x4d42;        // 0x42 = "B" 0x4d = "M"
    // Compute the size of the entire file.
    hdr.bfSize = (DWORD) (sizeof(BITMAPFILEHEADER) + pbih->biSize + pbih->biClrUsed * sizeof(RGBQUAD) + pbih->biSizeImage);
    hdr.bfReserved1 = 0;
    hdr.bfReserved2 = 0;

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it worked beutifully thanx :) :)

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