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where is the common c bitmap loading function?

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Started by cdrw November 14, 2004 03:56 PM

3 comments, last by GameDev.net 19 years, 5 months ago

cdrw

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November 14, 2004 03:56 PM

i havent use it in so long, its no longer on my computers, i need to read each pixel in a bitmap for the color, and i think i could do that if i could find the basic c bitmap loading function. The more basic the function the better, as long as i can still have access to the arrays of bytes it gets stored in.

"am i supposed to be able to do sh_t with this?" oink snort

nagromo

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November 14, 2004 04:01 PM

There is none; you have to use a library or fopen/fread. It's really simple, though; you could probably find some code on google to do it.

If you want to understand it you could find a description of the file format. It is just reading the header info to see how the image is stored and then reading the big array of pixels.

Palidine

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November 14, 2004 04:02 PM

there's no built in function for loading bitmaps that i know of. i know that many libraries for doing what you want to do have been suggested in these forums. i'd suggest searching them or giving google a whirl for a bitmap loading API.

-me