Re: simple requirement related to displaying jpegs

From:
"David Ching" <dc@remove-this.dcsoft.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:56:25 GMT
Message-ID:
<tKhtj.10856$Ch6.4808@newssvr11.news.prodigy.net>
"Joseph M. Newcomer" <newcomer@flounder.com> wrote in message
news:ddcar3tqvg90s47daa5nrkhfdpnlb8ld25@4ax.com...

There is apparently no JPEG-from-resource conversion mechanism; I'd
probably investigate
the JPEG libraries in places like www.codeproject.com


GDI+ offers this, e.g. Image::FromStream(). Paul di Lascia's CPicture
class, based on GDI+ (available in MSDN magazine) does this:

BOOL CPicture::Load(IStream* pstm)
{
 DestroyPicture();
 m_pImage = Image::FromStream(pstm, m_bUseEmbeddedColorManagement);
 return m_pImage->GetLastStatus()==Ok;
}

BOOL CPicture::LoadFromMem(HGLOBAL hMem)
{
 IStream* pstm;
 VERIFY(CreateStreamOnHGlobal(hMem,FALSE,&pstm)==S_OK);
 BOOL bRet = Load(pstm); // load from stream
 GlobalUnlock(hMem);
 pstm->Release();
 m_hMem = hMem;
 return bRet;
}

//////////////////
// Load from resource. Looks for "IMAGE" type.
//
BOOL CPicture::Load(UINT nIDRes)
{
 DestroyPicture();
 if (nIDRes==0)
  return FALSE;

 // find resource in resource file
 HINSTANCE hInst = AfxGetResourceHandle();
 HRSRC hRsrc = ::FindResource(hInst,
  MAKEINTRESOURCE(nIDRes),
  _T("IMAGE")); // type
 if (!hRsrc)
  return FALSE;

 // load resource into memory
 DWORD len = SizeofResource(hInst, hRsrc);
 BYTE* lpRsrc = (BYTE*)LoadResource(hInst, hRsrc);
 if (!lpRsrc)
  return FALSE;

 // create stream on global memory
 HGLOBAL hMem = GlobalAlloc(GMEM_FIXED, len);
 BYTE* buf = (BYTE*)GlobalLock(hMem);
 memcpy(buf, lpRsrc, len);
 FreeResource(lpRsrc);
 return LoadFromMem(hMem);
}

-- David

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