OpenCV 2.0 C++ API using imshow: returns unhandled exception and “bad-flag”

Question

I\'m trying to use the new OpenCV 2.0 API in MS Visual C++ 2008 and wrote this simple program:

cv::Mat img1 = cv::imread(\"image.jpg\",1);
cv::namedWindow(\"         


        

Answer 1

I believe this might be related to unicode.

Try the macro _TEXT()

For example:

cv::Mat img1 = cv::imread(_TEXT("image.jpg"),1);

Unicode in Visual C++ 2