can someone please tell me what is wrong with this code, it is not loading up my bitmap, ive put debug statements and i can tell u that it reads the header content and all just fine, the main data of the file doesnt get read though. here is the code please help!
unsigned char *LoadBitmapFile(char *filename, BITMAPINFOHEADER *bitmapInfoHeader)
{
FILE *filePtr; // the file pointer
BITMAPFILEHEADER bitmapFileHeader; // bitmap file header
unsigned char *bitmapImage; // bitmap image data
int imageIdx = 0; // image index counter
unsigned char tempRGB; // swap variable
// open filename in "read binary" mode
filePtr = fopen(filename, "rb");
if (filePtr == NULL)
return NULL;
// read the bitmap file header
fread(&bitmapFileHeader, sizeof(BITMAPFILEHEADER), 1, filePtr);
// verify that this is a bitmap by checking for the universal bitmap id
if (bitmapFileHeader.bfType != BITMAP_ID)
{
fclose(filePtr);
return NULL;
}
// read the bitmap information header
fread(bitmapInfoHeader, sizeof(BITMAPINFOHEADER), 1, filePtr);
// move file pointer to beginning of bitmap data
fseek(filePtr, bitmapFileHeader.bfOffBits, SEEK_SET);
// allocate enough memory for the bitmap image data
bitmapImage = (unsigned char*)malloc(bitmapInfoHeader->biSizeImage);
// verify memory allocation
if (!bitmapImage)
{
free(bitmapImage);
fclose(filePtr);
return NULL;
}
// read in the bitmap image data
fread(bitmapImage, 1, bitmapInfoHeader->biSizeImage, filePtr);
output<<bitmapImage;
output<<strlen((char *)bitmapImage);
// make sure bitmap image data was read
if (bitmapImage == NULL)
{
fclose(filePtr);
return NULL;
}
// swap the R and B values to get RGB since the bitmap color format is in BGR
for (imageIdx = 0; imageIdx < bitmapInfoHeader->biSizeImage; imageIdx+=3)
{
tempRGB = bitmapImage[imageIdx];
bitmapImage[imageIdx] = bitmapImage[imageIdx + 2];
bitmapImage[imageIdx + 2] = tempRGB;
}
// close the file and return the bitmap image data
fclose(filePtr);
return bitmapImage;
}