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  • J Jakob Clausen

    @Christian-Ehrlicher I don't understand. How is a debugger going to help me? What do you think I should look for?

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    Christian Ehrlicher
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    @Jakob-Clausen said in Change pixel color of QPixmap:

    What do you think I should look for?

    You should look if e.g. setPixel() is called ...

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    • Christian EhrlicherC Christian Ehrlicher

      @Jakob-Clausen said in Change pixel color of QPixmap:

      What do you think I should look for?

      You should look if e.g. setPixel() is called ...

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      @Christian-Ehrlicher It is being called. If I remove the line, then the picture looks like the original. For me setPixel() is a magic function that should replace one pixel color with another. If it does not, then I am lost.

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        So do you actually use the pixmap returned by the function?

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          Note the caveats mentioned in https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qimage.html#setPixel :

          If the image's format is either monochrome or paletted, the given index_or_rgb value must be an index in
          the image's color table, otherwise the parameter must be a QRgb value.
          
          If position is not a valid coordinate pair in the image, or if index_or_rgb >= colorCount() in the case of monochrome and paletted images, the result is undefined.
          

          So, is your image maybe using a palette? There's more details here: https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qimage.html#pixel-manipulation

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          • J Jakob Clausen

            @Christian-Ehrlicher It is being called. If I remove the line, then the picture looks like the original. For me setPixel() is a magic function that should replace one pixel color with another. If it does not, then I am lost.

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            @Jakob-Clausen
            As @Christian-Ehrlicher has just asked --- if you think your code is changing the passed-in QPixmap& pixmap, it is not!

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            • Christian EhrlicherC Christian Ehrlicher

              So do you actually use the pixmap returned by the function?

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              @Christian-Ehrlicher yes.

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                If I comment out the line setPixel(), then the picture will look like the original:
                original.png
                If I do as described, then it looks like this:
                distorted.png
                So it is changing the pixelvalues. But it is a little rough on the edges.

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                  Christian Ehrlicher
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                  Try to use setPixelColor(int x, int y, const QColor &color).

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                  • Christian EhrlicherC Christian Ehrlicher

                    Try to use setPixelColor(int x, int y, const QColor &color).

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                    #18

                    @Christian-Ehrlicher If I do that, then it works perfectly. But setPixelColor() is introduced before 5.6, and I am forced to use 5.3.

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                    • J Jakob Clausen

                      @Christian-Ehrlicher If I do that, then it works perfectly. But setPixelColor() is introduced before 5.6, and I am forced to use 5.3.

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                      @Jakob-Clausen Did you read @kkoehne 's comment? What pixel format do you have?

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                      • Christian EhrlicherC Christian Ehrlicher

                        @Jakob-Clausen Did you read @kkoehne 's comment? What pixel format do you have?

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                        @Christian-Ehrlicher QImage::Format_ARGB32_Premultiplied

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                        • J Jakob Clausen

                          If I comment out the line setPixel(), then the picture will look like the original:
                          original.png
                          If I do as described, then it looks like this:
                          distorted.png
                          So it is changing the pixelvalues. But it is a little rough on the edges.

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                          @Jakob-Clausen Perhaps you should try to force pixel format to what you need:

                          QPixmap IconWidget::changeColor(QPixmap& pixmap, QColor to, QColor from)
                          {
                              QImage temp = pixmap.toImage();
                              
                              qDebug() << "Pixel format is:" << temp.pixelFormat();
                              
                              if(temp.pixelFormat() != QImage::Format_ARGB32)
                                  temp.convertTo(QImage::Format_ARGB32);
                              
                              for (int y = 0; y < temp.height(); ++y)
                              {
                                  QRgb* s = reinterpret_cast<QRgb *>(temp.scanLine(y));
                          
                                  for (int x= 0; x < temp.width(); ++x, ++s)
                                  {
                                      QColor color = QColor::fromRgba(*s);
                                      uint8_t alpha = color.alpha();
                          
                                      to.setAlpha(alpha);
                                      from.setAlpha(alpha);
                          
                                      if (color == from)
                                         *s = to.rgba();
                                  }
                              }
                          
                              return QPixmap::fromImage(temp);
                          }
                          

                          It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. (Sherlock Holmes)

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                            QImage::Format_ARGB32_Premultiplied is not a good idea to do the pixel stuff then... see the docs: https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qimage.html#Format-enum

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                            • KroMignonK KroMignon

                              @Jakob-Clausen Perhaps you should try to force pixel format to what you need:

                              QPixmap IconWidget::changeColor(QPixmap& pixmap, QColor to, QColor from)
                              {
                                  QImage temp = pixmap.toImage();
                                  
                                  qDebug() << "Pixel format is:" << temp.pixelFormat();
                                  
                                  if(temp.pixelFormat() != QImage::Format_ARGB32)
                                      temp.convertTo(QImage::Format_ARGB32);
                                  
                                  for (int y = 0; y < temp.height(); ++y)
                                  {
                                      QRgb* s = reinterpret_cast<QRgb *>(temp.scanLine(y));
                              
                                      for (int x= 0; x < temp.width(); ++x, ++s)
                                      {
                                          QColor color = QColor::fromRgba(*s);
                                          uint8_t alpha = color.alpha();
                              
                                          to.setAlpha(alpha);
                                          from.setAlpha(alpha);
                              
                                          if (color == from)
                                             *s = to.rgba();
                                      }
                                  }
                              
                                  return QPixmap::fromImage(temp);
                              }
                              
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                              @KroMignon Thats a good idea. convertTo() is introduced in 5.13. But if I use

                              temp = temp.convertToFormat(QImage::Format_ARGB32);
                              

                              Then it seems to work.
                              Thank you very much.

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