Working with proprietary image formats ...

[Christopher Kurtis Koeber]

Dear All,
Recently I created a thread about trying to load a particular ICON image
that GDI plus could not load. I realized that GDI plus definitely does not
support it because it had a certain resolution that is not in any of its
built in format libraries. So my question is this, how would I go about
working with images that are not in GDI+ native libraries, such as raw
camera files (*.RAW, etc.), Pixar's file format, and plenty of other
formats? I am guessing that I will have to write my own code to deal with
these files. Has anyone ever working with these proprietary files and how
so? Thanks in advance!
Sincerely,
Christopher Koeber

 

[Ken Dopierala Jr.]

Hi Christopher,

If you can't find a 3rd party library that can do this for you then you'll
need to write your own. First you need to find the file format. Once you
have that you should be able to load it into a byte array and then display
it from there. Most picture formats include a header that tells you about
the image (i.e. color depth, width, height, and etc.) Once you have that
you can open up the file, read in the information telling you what it looks
like, and then load the image into that byte array. Contacting the creators
of the file format is a good first step, if they don't provide that
information then you'll need to scower the web for information on it. Good
luck! Ken.

 

[Ken Halter]

First you need to find the file format.

Great source of info here....

Wotsit's Format Search
http://www.wotsit.org/search.asp?s=ALLFILES

 

[Christopher Kurtis Koeber]

Man, this is going to be a lot of work!!!...... Thanks for the help!!
Christopher Koeber

 

[Bob Powell [MVP]]

Do you have a specific format that you need to use or is it just general
image formats??

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[Christopher Kurtis Koeber]

Well, I want to create an image editor that can work with many formats while
harnessing the power of GDI+.

 

[Christopher Kurtis Koeber]

Thanks for the site, great stuff!

Christopher

Great source of info here....

Wotsit's Format Search
http://www.wotsit.org/search.asp?s=ALLFILES

 

[Ken Dopierala Jr.]

Hi,

Here is a link to one that is written in .Net with the source code available
for download:

http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/paint.net/downloads.html

It is probably one of the coolest .Net apps out right now. Good luck! Ken.

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[Christopher Kurtis Koeber]

Damm, my school didn't do anything cool like that. The only classes they had
available were for learning how to use Microsoft Office for beginners. Looks
like I will have to do something on my own for this school, as usual....

Thanks Ken, great link!
Christopher