How to get the bitmap from an Qimage

[browser90]

Hi guys,

I need to have the array with the bits from a QImage. I thougth I could do something with the
@
QImage myImage;
myImage.load("clouds.jpg");
QByteArray ba;
QBuffer buffer(&ba);
buffer.open(QIODevice::WriteOnly);
myImage.save(&buffer, "PNG"); // writes image into ba in PNG format@

I need that array because then I can have a second array from an image to transform the 2 images and show them back on the screen.

For example got a background image + a foreground image and then I could merge them that you see the background image only where the foreground image has nothing to show.

Kind regards,

[miroslav]

QImage in memory is practically a two-dimensional array of pixels. See the pixel() and setPixel() methods. The only property of a pixel is a color value.

[browser90]

Oké thanks. I tried the pixel method it gives me this 4293852159 color value back, but I can't do any methods to get the rgb value or the hex value. Do I need to convert this to a QColor first or how?

[miroslav]

QRgb is a 32bit (I think) integer value holding the 4 color elements including alpha. You can manipulate the integer values if you are into such things, or load it into a QColor (setRgba()).

[task_struct]

Hi,

If I understand you right, you want to composite images. You can use "QPainter::setCompositionMode":http://developer.qt.nokia.com/doc/qt-4.8/qpainter.html#setCompositionMode