read pixel value in bmp file [closed]

Answer 1

I've created a BitMap class that works for bmp files that have 24 bits per pixel. If the bmp isn't compatible, you should get a relevant error.

It follows along almost exactly with the Wikipedia article. (The one problem is that it doesn't work with files that have a pixel array offset that is greater than 255. This is noted in the code and should be easily fixable.)

I've been using this with bmp files created by mspaint.

Here is an example usage

example.cpp

#include "bmp.h"

int main() {
    // load the file. The constructor now does most of the work
    BitMap example_bmp("examplefile.bmp"); 

    // get the vector  for the pixel at (1,1)
    std::vector example_vector = example_bmp.getPixel(1,1); 
}

example_vector now contains the rgb (in that order) values of the pixel at coordinate (1,1) indexed from the top of the image, going down. Indices start at 0. See the Wikipedia examples.

Here is the header file:

#ifndef BMP_H
#define BMP_H

#include 
#include 
#include 
class BitMap {

    private:
        unsigned char m_bmpFileHeader[14];
        unsigned int m_pixelArrayOffset;
        unsigned char m_bmpInfoHeader[40];

        int m_height;
        int m_width;
        int m_bitsPerPixel;

        int m_rowSize;
        int m_pixelArraySize;

        unsigned char* m_pixelData;

        char * m_copyname;
        const char * m_filename;
    public:
        BitMap(const char * filename);
        ~BitMap();

        std::vector getPixel(int i,int j);

        void makeCopy(char * filename);
        void writePixel(int i,int j, int R, int G, int B);

        void swapPixel(int i, int j, int i2, int j2);

        void dispPixelData();

        int width() {return m_width;}
        int height() {return m_height;}

        int vd(int i, int j);
        int hd(int i, int j);

        bool isSorted();
};

BitMap::BitMap( const char * filename) {

    using namespace std;

    m_filename = filename;

    ifstream inf(filename);
    if(!inf) {
        cerr<<"Unable to open file: "<>hex>>a;
        m_bmpFileHeader[i] = a;
    }
    if(m_bmpFileHeader[0]!='B' || m_bmpFileHeader[1]!='M') {
        cerr<<"Your info header might be different!\nIt should start with 'BM'.\n";
    }

    /*
        THE FOLLOWING LINE ONLY WORKS IF THE OFFSET IS 1 BYTE!!!!! (it can be 4 bytes max)
        That should be fixed now. 
        old line was
        m_pixelArrayOffset = m_bmpFileHeader[10];
    */
    unsigned int * array_offset_ptr = (unsigned int *)(m_bmpFileHeader + 10);
    m_pixelArrayOffset = *array_offset_ptr;


    if( m_bmpFileHeader[11] != 0 || m_bmpFileHeader[12] !=0 || m_bmpFileHeader[13] !=0 ) {
        std::cerr<< "You probably need to fix something. bmp.h("<<__LINE__<<")\n";
    }



    //unsigned char m_bmpInfoHeader[40];
    for(int i=0;i<40;i++) {
        inf>>hex>>a;
        m_bmpInfoHeader[i]=a;
    }

    int * width_ptr = (int*)(m_bmpInfoHeader+4);
    int * height_ptr = (int*)(m_bmpInfoHeader+8);

    m_width = *width_ptr;
    m_height = *height_ptr;

    printf("W: %i, H: %i", m_width, m_height);

    m_bitsPerPixel = m_bmpInfoHeader[14];
    if(m_bitsPerPixel!=24) {
        cerr<<"This program is for 24bpp files. Your bmp is not that\n";
    }
    int compressionMethod = m_bmpInfoHeader[16];
    if(compressionMethod!=0) {
        cerr<<"There's some compression stuff going on that we might not be able to deal with.\n";
        cerr<<"Comment out offending lines to continue anyways. bpm.h line: "<<__LINE__<<"\n";
    }


    m_rowSize = int( floor( (m_bitsPerPixel*m_width + 31.)/32 ) ) *4;
    m_pixelArraySize = m_rowSize* abs(m_height);

    m_pixelData = new unsigned char [m_pixelArraySize];

    inf.seekg(m_pixelArrayOffset,ios::beg);
    for(int i=0;i>hex>>a;
        m_pixelData[i]=a; 
    }



}

BitMap::~BitMap() {
    delete[] m_pixelData;
}

void BitMap::dispPixelData() {
    for(int i=0;i BitMap::getPixel(int x, int y) {
    if(x v;
        v.push_back(0);
        v.push_back(0);
        v.push_back(0);

        y = m_height -1- y; //to flip things
        //std::cout<<"y: "<>c;
        copyfile< p1 = (*this).getPixel(i,j);

    std::vector p2 = (*this).getPixel(i2,j2);

    (*this).writePixel(i,j,p2[0],p2[1],p2[2]);
    (*this).writePixel(i2,j2,p1[0],p1[1],p1[2]);

}
#endif