glDrawPixels + FreeImage need help

[Limas]

Hi,
I want to load a PNG file with freeimage and then render it with glDrawPixels but it dont work.


void ImageLoader::LoadImage(const char *filename){

FREE_IMAGE_FORMAT fif = FIF_UNKNOWN;
FIBITMAP *dib(0);

fif = FreeImage_GetFileType(filename, 0);

if(fif == FIF_UNKNOWN)
fif = FreeImage_GetFIFFromFilename(filename);

if(FreeImage_FIFSupportsReading(fif))
dib = FreeImage_Load(fif, filename);

bits = FreeImage_GetBits(dib);

width = FreeImage_GetWidth(dib);
height = FreeImage_GetHeight(dib);

FreeImage_Unload(dib);


}


This functon loads a file and then I render it:



ImageLoader pic;
pic.LoadImage("C:\\pic.png");


...


glClearColor(0.9, 0.9, 0.9, 0.0);
glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT);

glRasterPos2i(10,10);
glDrawPixels(pic.width, pic.height, GL_RGBA, GL_INT, pic.bits);

glfwSwapBuffers();


Can someone help me? I dont want to use a texture.

[Limas]

OK, I try to ask in another way:
How can I load files with freeimage and render it with glDrawPixels?

[ugluk]

glDrawPixels() is a bad choice. People usually draw quads and plaster them with 2D textures. Another option are point sprites and some extensions.

opengl faq (http://www.opengl.org/resources/faq/technical/transformations.htm)

You can also google for 2D with opengl or somesuch, there's a ton of resources. Maybe you can try to do it without the FreeImage library at first, for testing. There's:

stb_image (http://nothings.org/stb_image.c)

[Rosario Leonardi]

bits = FreeImage_GetBits(dib);
...
FreeImage_Unload(dib);

You are taking the pointer to the picture data and the you destroy the picture.


glDrawPixels(pic.width, pic.height, GL_RGBA, GL_INT, pic.bits);

DrawPixel as already saw is not the best choise but should work. Are you sure that the picture is RGBA and not only RGB? Also why you use GL_INT? The picture should be 8bit per channel, so GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE. If you will send RGB data take care of the pack_alignment parameter of the pixel store function

Also when you ask a question is better specify what do you see on the screen or post a screen shot. "Don't work" can be "black screen", "I see random pixel", "distorted image" .

ps: by the way. FreeImage let you query the number of bit per pixel and all the data you need.