Hi everyone.
I am trying to display a texture using SOIL (Simple OpenGL image library).
Please find my entire code below. I am unable to understand why I am not able to see any image on the screen. The code below only shows a red screen background with a black square image in the center. It is supposed to show a red image background with an image in the center.

I am able to build and run the program successfully without any errors.

Any help will be greatly appreciated!

#include <stdio.h>#include <GL/glu.h>#include <GL/glut.h> // Include the GLUT header file#include <soil/SOIL.h>GLuint usertex;void keyOperations (void) {}void renderPrimitive (void) {    glEnable(GL_TEXTURE_2D);    glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D,usertex);	glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_MIN_FILTER, GL_NEAREST);	glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_MAG_FILTER, GL_NEAREST);	glBegin(GL_QUADS); // Start drawing a quad primitive    glVertex3f(-0.1f, -0.1f, 0.0f); // The bottom left corner    glVertex3f(-0.1f, 0.1f, 0.0f); // The top left corner    glVertex3f(0.1f, 0.1f, 0.0f); // The top right corner    glVertex3f(0.1f, -0.1f, 0.0f); // The bottom right corner    glEnd();    glDisable(GL_TEXTURE_2D);}void display (void) {keyOperations();glClearColor(1.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f); // Clear the background of our window to redglDisable(GL_BLEND);glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT); //Clear the colour buffer (more buffers later on)glLoadIdentity(); // Load the Identity Matrix to reset our drawing locationsglTranslatef(0.0f, 0.0f, -5.0f); // Push eveything 5 units back into the scene, otherwise we won't see the primitiverenderPrimitive(); // Render the primitiveglFlush(); // Flush the OpenGL buffers to the window}void reshape (int width, int height) {glViewport(0, 0, (GLsizei)width, (GLsizei)height); // Set our viewport to the size of our windowglMatrixMode(GL_PROJECTION); // Switch to the projection matrix so that we can manipulate how our scene is viewedglLoadIdentity(); // Reset the projection matrix to the identity matrix so that we don't get any artifacts (cleaning up)gluPerspective(60, (GLfloat)width / (GLfloat)height, 1.0, 100.0); // Set the Field of view angle (in degrees), the aspect ratio of our window, and the new and far planesglMatrixMode(GL_MODELVIEW); // Switch back to the model view matrix, so that we can start drawing shapes correctly}void keyPressed (unsigned char key, int x, int y) {}void keyUp (unsigned char key, int x, int y) {}int main (int argc, char **argv) {glutInit(&argc, argv); // Initialize GLUTglutInitDisplayMode (GLUT_SINGLE); // Set up a basic display buffer (only single buffered for now)glutInitWindowSize (500, 500); // Set the width and height of the windowglutInitWindowPosition (100, 100); // Set the position of the windowglutCreateWindow ("You’re first OpenGL Window"); // Set the title for the windowglutDisplayFunc(display); // Tell GLUT to use the method "display" for renderingglutReshapeFunc(reshape); // Tell GLUT to use the method "reshape" for reshapingglutKeyboardFunc(keyPressed); // Tell GLUT to use the method "keyPressed" for key pressesglutKeyboardUpFunc(keyUp); // Tell GLUT to use the method "keyUp" for key up events    /* load an image file directly as a new OpenGL texture */    usertex = SOIL_load_OGL_texture        (            "resources/user.png",            SOIL_LOAD_AUTO,            SOIL_CREATE_NEW_ID,            SOIL_FLAG_MIPMAPS | SOIL_FLAG_INVERT_Y | SOIL_FLAG_NTSC_SAFE_RGB | SOIL_FLAG_COMPRESS_TO_DXT        );    /* check for an error during the load process */    if( 0 == usertex )    {        printf( "SOIL loading error: '%s'\n", SOIL_last_result() );    } else {        printf("SOIL load success for user block");    }glutMainLoop(); // Enter GLUT's main loopreturn 0;}

P.S.: All the code except the SOIL part is from swiftless tutorials (http://www.swiftless.com/tutorials/opengl/square.html)

Ham.
I think Soil is not good.
you can use FreeImage,Devil or CImage

www.sooftmoon.com

@ccsdu..
I previously tried to use DevIL. But I was unable to get that to work as well. I kept getting an error code 1290 - Unable to load file.

int loadTextures(){    ILuint texid; /* ILuint is a 32bit unsigned integer.    Variable texid will be used to store image name. */    ILboolean success; /* ILboolean is type similar to GLboolean and can equal GL_FALSE (0) or GL_TRUE (1)    it can have different value (because it's just typedef of unsigned char), but this sould be    avoided.    Variable success will be used to determine if some function returned success or failure. */    GLuint image;    ilGenImages(1, &texid); /* Generation of one image name */    ilBindImage(texid); /* Binding of image name */    //success = ilutGLLoadImage("user.PNG");    success = ilLoad(IL_PNG,"resources/user.png"); /* Load the image */    if (success!=IL_FALSE) /* If no error occured: */    {        success = ilConvertImage(IL_RGBA, IL_UNSIGNED_BYTE); /* Convert every colour component into        unsigned byte. If your image contains alpha channel you can replace IL_RGB with IL_RGBA */        if (success==IL_FALSE)        {            /* Error occured */            return -1;        }        glGenTextures(1, ℑ); /* Texture name generation */        glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, image); /* Binding of texture name */        glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_MAG_FILTER, GL_LINEAR); /* We will use linear          interpolation for magnification filter */        glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_MIN_FILTER, GL_LINEAR); /* We will use linear          interpolation for minifying filter */        glTexImage2D(GL_TEXTURE_2D, 0, ilGetInteger(IL_IMAGE_BPP), ilGetInteger(IL_IMAGE_WIDTH),        ilGetInteger(IL_IMAGE_HEIGHT), 0, ilGetInteger(IL_IMAGE_FORMAT), GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE,        ilGetData()); /* Texture specification */    }    else    {        /* Error occured */        ILenum err = ilGetError() ;        printf( "\nError Code:%d\n", err );        printf( "Error String: %s\n", ilGetString( err ) );        return -1;    }    ilDeleteImages(1, &texid); /* Because we have already copied image data into texture data        we can release memory used by image. */}

The code keeps printing the "Error Code: 1290" (IL_COULD_NOT_OPEN_FILE) statement. I have debugged it, and have observed that the ilLoad() keeps returning 0. I have tried using some other functions to load the image (ilLoadImage and ilutGLLoadImage) but one of them was throwing up a 1291 (IL_INVALID_EXTENSION) and I don't remember what the other one was throwing.

I have repeatedly checked the paths of the files. I am accessing some other text files present in the resources folder, and they are all being accessed just fine.

Any pointers on what can make the above code work are equally welcome!

Edit: I forgot to mention this. I don't know if this will have any effect on what I am doing. I am invoking the loadTextures() just before I call glutMainLoop().

You can use FreeImage
If there is any question,
I would like to help you

You haven't defined any texture coordinates for the quad you're rendering. Take a look here, at the "Using the Texture" section for some ideas.

@fcoelho
Wow! Thank you so much! That got the sample program working. Now I need to incorporate it into my original program. You did not set the hyperlink in your post. I referred to http://www.gamedev.net/reference/articles/article947.asp.

Thanks a lot again!

EDIT:
Solution for noobs in OpenGL like me:
Replace the code between glBegin and glEnd in renderPrimitive with this:

    float blocksize = 0.125f; // you can specify any dimensions you want here    glTexCoord2d(0,0);    glVertex2f(-blocksize, -blocksize); // The bottom left corner    glTexCoord2d(0,1);    glVertex2f(-blocksize, blocksize); // The top left corner    glTexCoord2d(1,1);    glVertex2f(blocksize, blocksize); // The top right corner    glTexCoord2d(1,0);    glVertex2f(blocksize, -blocksize); // The bottom right corner    

You can also use glTexCoord2f(). I wanted the entire square to be filled with my texture image and hence I specified the coordinates as (0,0),(0,1),(1,1) and (1,0)

[Edited by - crk on November 7, 2010 1:03:57 AM]

@fcoelho
The textures are working just fine now, but there is a greyish border around the textures. I have tried setting GL_TEXTURE_BORDER_COLOR but it does not seem to work.

float bordercolor[] = { 1.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f };glTexParameterfv(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_BORDER_COLOR, bordercolor);

The texture images have 32X32 dimensions.