Copying between NSBitmapImageRep objects

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Post: #1

Oct 31, 2007 — 10:40 AM

As someone who's fairly well versed in the ways of Classic, I'm still trying to wrap my head around Cocoa and Objective-C. Anyway, I was reading up on NSBitmapImageRep and I think I finally found a class where I can manipulate image data on a per-pixel basis. Now I wonder... is there a way to copy the image from an NSImage, NSImageRep, or another NSBitmapImageRep to my NSBitmapImageRep ala CopyBits?

I may get hit with a lot of "just use OpenGL" responses but I'm trying to iron out the basics before I dive into that. My project is a 2D tile-based game so OpenGL seems like trying to kill a fly with a sledgehammer. Thanks in advance! Apologies if this is a dumb question

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Oct 31, 2007 — 11:04 AM

If you really want to copy from the image memory from one to another, you might as well write the blitter yourself.

If you just want to draw an NSImage into another NSImage, you can call lockFocus and unlockFocus to draw into said image.

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Post: #3

Oct 31, 2007 — 11:16 AM

Here's a snippet of code that might not do precisely what you're looking for, but should get you pointed in the right direction:

Code:

NSBitmapImageRep * NSImageRepToNSBitmapImageRepCopy(NSImageRep * imageRep, int targetWidth, int targetHeight) {

    NSBitmapImageRep * bitmap;

    NSGraphicsContext * context;

    bitmap = [[NSBitmapImageRep alloc] initWithBitmapDataPlanes: NULL

                                                     pixelsWide: targetWidth

                                                     pixelsHigh: targetHeight

                                                  bitsPerSample: 8

                                                samplesPerPixel: 4

                                                       hasAlpha: YES

                                                       isPlanar: NO

                                                 colorSpaceName: NSDeviceRGBColorSpace

                                                   bitmapFormat: NSAlphaNonpremultipliedBitmapFormat

                                                    bytesPerRow: (targetWidth * 4)

                                                   bitsPerPixel: 32];

    context = [NSGraphicsContext graphicsContextWithBitmapImageRep: bitmap];

    [NSGraphicsContext saveGraphicsState];

    [NSGraphicsContext setCurrentContext: context];

    [imageRep drawInRect: NSMakeRect(0, 0, targetWidth, targetHeight)];

    [NSGraphicsContext restoreGraphicsState];

    return bitmap;

}

Emehr

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Post: #4

Oct 31, 2007 — 01:27 PM

That looks like just the thing I need. I never would have known to dig into the NSGraphicsContext class for this. Thanks! I'll try it out when I get home from work.

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