Re: Create a CBitmap from SAFEARRAY

From:
MrAsm <mrasm@usa.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Wed, 14 Mar 2007 19:17:52 GMT
Message-ID:
<4qhgv25uko8t3vhsv16gu3t7ca40r286gi@4ax.com>
On 14 Mar 2007 08:43:17 -0700, dom_perron@hotmail.com wrote:

I developed a component in .net which I call from an MFC program.
A .net function called in my c++ program return a safearray ** (wich
is a byte [] in .net). This function convert a string of binary data
base64 encoded in a array of byte[].

Here is my .NET implementation:

byte[] GetDecodedImage(String i_innerText)
{
byte[] base64 = Convert.FromBase64String(i_innerText);

                           return base64;
}


If you are using .NET just for the built-in base-64 decoding class,
you might consider the following C++ code. I adapted the core decoding
engine from a set of C functions at:

  http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/base64/

(they have a command line base64 decoder/encoder written in C.)

If you have a base-64 encoded string, and you want to decode it, you
can write e.g.:

// Your base64 encoded input string:
// std::string base64data;

// Buffer to store result
Base64Decoder::Buffer result;

// Do the decoding
BYTE * pBytes = Base64Decoder::Decode( base64data, result );

The Base64Decoder::Decode method takes in input the base64 encoded
string, and a reference to a byte buffer. The method will decode the
input data into the buffer, and will return a pointer to first buffer
byte.
Note that the buffer is a std::vector<BYTE> allocated onto the stack,
so there's no need to delete[] the buffer.

The code follows:

<CODE File="Base64Decoder.h">

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// FILE: Base64Decoder.h

#pragma once

//
// *** Base-64 Decoder ***
//
// By MrAsm
//
class Base64Decoder
{
public:

    // Byte buffer
    typedef std::vector< BYTE > Buffer;

    //
    // NOTE:
    // Base-64 encoded strings are pure ASCII strings,
    // so they don't need Unicode, and can be stored
    // into std::string.
    //

    // Decode a base64-encoded string, and return the decoded string
    static std::string DecodeString( IN const std::string &
                                     encodedString );

    // Decode a base64-encoded string, and save result into a buffer.
    // Return pointer to first buffer byte.
    static BYTE * Decode( IN const std::string & encodedString,
                          OUT Buffer & out );

    // Decode base64-encoded data read from file, and save result
    // into a buffer.
    // Return pointer to first buffer byte on success.
    // Return NULL on error.
    static BYTE * DecodeFile( IN LPCTSTR szFileName,
                              OUT Buffer & out );

    //
    // IMPLEMENTATION
    //

private:

    static const std::string base64Chars;

    static bool IsBase64( IN unsigned char c ) {
        return (isalnum(c) || (c == '+') || (c == '/'));
    }

    static bool CompactLines( IN LPCTSTR szFileName,
                              OUT std::string & data );
};

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

</CODE>

<CODE File="Base64Decoder.cpp">

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// FILE: Base64Decoder.cpp

#include "StdAfx.h"
#include "Base64Decoder.h"

const std::string Base64Decoder::base64Chars =
    "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"
    "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"
    "0123456789+/";

std::string Base64Decoder::DecodeString( IN const std::string &
encodedString )
{
    //
    // This decoding engine is adapted from:
    //
    // http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/base64/
    //

    int in_len = (int) encodedString.size();
    int i = 0;
    int j = 0;
    int in_ = 0;
    unsigned char char_array_4[4], char_array_3[3];
    std::string ret;

    while (in_len-- && ( encodedString[in_] != '=') &&
           IsBase64(encodedString[in_]))
    {
        char_array_4[i++] = encodedString[in_]; in_++;
        if (i ==4)
        {
            for (i = 0; i <4; i++)
                char_array_4[i] = (unsigned char)
                    base64Chars.find(char_array_4[i]);

            char_array_3[0] = (char_array_4[0] << 2) +
                ((char_array_4[1] & 0x30) >> 4);
            char_array_3[1] = ((char_array_4[1] & 0xf) << 4) +
                ((char_array_4[2] & 0x3c) >> 2);
            char_array_3[2] = ((char_array_4[2] & 0x3) << 6) +
                char_array_4[3];

            for (i = 0; (i < 3); i++)
                ret += char_array_3[i];
            i = 0;
        }
    }

    if (i)
    {
        for (j = i; j <4; j++)
            char_array_4[j] = 0;

        for (j = 0; j <4; j++)
            char_array_4[j] = (unsigned char)
                base64Chars.find(char_array_4[j]);

        char_array_3[0] = (char_array_4[0] << 2) + ((char_array_4[1] &
            0x30) >> 4);
        char_array_3[1] = ((char_array_4[1] & 0xf) << 4) +
            ((char_array_4[2] & 0x3c) >> 2);
        char_array_3[2] = ((char_array_4[2] & 0x3) << 6) +
            char_array_4[3];

        for (j = 0; (j < i - 1); j++) ret += char_array_3[j];
    }

    return ret;
}

// Build a single line from Base64 file content
bool Base64Decoder::CompactLines( IN LPCTSTR szFileName, OUT
std::string & data )
{
    data.clear();

    FILE * file = _tfopen( szFileName, _T("rt") );
    if ( file == NULL )
        return false;

    static const int maxLineChars = 100;
    char line[ maxLineChars + 1 ];

    std::ostringstream os;
    while ( true )
    {
        ZeroMemory( line, sizeof(line) );
        if ( ! fgets( line, maxLineChars, file ) )
        {
            break;
        }

        // Remove ending '\r\n'
        size_t len = strlen(line);
        if ( line[len-2] == '\r' )
            line[len-2] = '\0';

        // Add line
        os << std::string( line );
    }

    fclose( file );
    file = NULL;

    data = os.str();
    return true;
}

BYTE * Base64Decoder::Decode( IN const std::string & encodedString,
OUT Buffer & out )
{
    // Clear output buffer
    out.clear();

    // std::string is a vector of bytes, so we can store
    // decoded stuff into it
    std::string decoded = DecodeString( encodedString );

    // Copy the string content into destination buffer
    out.resize( decoded.length() );
    BYTE * pOutput = &(*out.begin());
    memcpy( pOutput, decoded.c_str(), decoded.length() );

    // Return pointer to destination buffer
    return pOutput;
}

BYTE * Base64Decoder::DecodeFile( IN LPCTSTR szFileName, OUT
std::vector<BYTE> & out )
{
    // Clear output buffer
    out.clear();

    // Check file name
    ASSERT( szFileName != NULL );
    if ( szFileName == NULL )
        return NULL;

    // Compact input file lines into a single base64 string
    std::string base64data;
    if ( ! CompactLines( szFileName, base64data ) )
        return NULL;

    // Decode into buffer
    return Decode( base64data, out );
}

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

</CODE>

MrAsm

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