Drawing an image in grayscale

If the display supports a 256 color palette, then the function creates a grayscale palette from the color information in the DIB and selects and realizes the palette before drawing the image onto the device context. A grayscale color has equal values in its red, green and blue color values. If the display device supports more than 256 colors, then it will not support a palette and palette manipulation will not help us out. In this case, we modify the color table in the DIB instead. We change all the color entries to grayscale before displaying the bitmap.

// DrawGrayScale	- Draws a bitmap in gray scale
// pDC			- Pointer to target device context
// hDIB			- Handle of device-independent bitmap
//
void DrawGrayScale( CDC *pDC, HANDLE hDIB )
{
	CPalette pal;
	CPalette *pOldPalette;

	BITMAPINFO &bmInfo = *(LPBITMAPINFO)hDIB ;
	
	int nColors = bmInfo.bmiHeader.biClrUsed ? bmInfo.bmiHeader.biClrUsed : 
				1 << bmInfo.bmiHeader.biBitCount;
	

	// Create the palette if needed
	if( pDC->GetDeviceCaps(RASTERCAPS) & RC_PALETTE && nColors <= 256 )
	{
		// The device supports a palette and bitmap has color table
		
		// Allocate memory for a palette
		UINT nSize = sizeof(LOGPALETTE) + (sizeof(PALETTEENTRY) * nColors);
		LOGPALETTE *pLP = (LOGPALETTE *) new BYTE[nSize];

		pLP->palVersion = 0x300;
		pLP->palNumEntries = nColors;
		
		for( int i=0; i < nColors; i++)
		{
			long lSquareSum = bmInfo.bmiColors[i].rgbRed 
						* bmInfo.bmiColors[i].rgbRed
						+ bmInfo.bmiColors[i].rgbGreen 
						* bmInfo.bmiColors[i].rgbGreen
						+ bmInfo.bmiColors[i].rgbBlue 
						* bmInfo.bmiColors[i].rgbBlue;
			int nGray = (int)sqrt(((double)lSquareSum)/3);
			pLP->palPalEntry[i].peRed = nGray;
			pLP->palPalEntry[i].peGreen = nGray;
			pLP->palPalEntry[i].peBlue = nGray;
			pLP->palPalEntry[i].peFlags = 0;
		}
		
		pal.CreatePalette( pLP );
		
		delete[] pLP;

		// Select the palette
		pOldPalette = pDC->SelectPalette(&pal, FALSE);
		pDC->RealizePalette();
	}
	else if((pDC->GetDeviceCaps(RASTERCAPS) & RC_PALETTE) == 0 && nColors <= 256 )
	{
		// Device does not supports palettes but bitmap has a color table
		// Modify the bitmaps color table directly
		// Note : This ends up changing the DIB. If that is not acceptable then
		// copy the DIB and then change the copy rather than the original

		for( int i=0; i < nColors; i++)
		{
			long lSquareSum = bmInfo.bmiColors[i].rgbRed 
						* bmInfo.bmiColors[i].rgbRed
						+ bmInfo.bmiColors[i].rgbGreen 
						* bmInfo.bmiColors[i].rgbGreen
						+ bmInfo.bmiColors[i].rgbBlue 
						* bmInfo.bmiColors[i].rgbBlue;
			int nGray = (int)sqrt(((double)lSquareSum)/3);
			bmInfo.bmiColors[i].rgbRed = nGray;
			bmInfo.bmiColors[i].rgbGreen = nGray;
			bmInfo.bmiColors[i].rgbBlue = nGray;
		}
	}


	int nWidth = bmInfo.bmiHeader.biWidth;
	int nHeight = bmInfo.bmiHeader.biHeight;
	
	
	// Draw the image 
	LPVOID lpDIBBits = (LPVOID)(bmInfo.bmiColors + nColors);
	
	::SetDIBitsToDevice(pDC->m_hDC,	// hDC
		0,				// XDest
		0,				// YDest
		nWidth,				// nDestWidth
		nHeight,			// nDestHeight
		0,				// XSrc
		0,				// YSrc
		0,				// nStartScan
		nHeight,			// nNumScans
		lpDIBBits,			// lpBits
		(LPBITMAPINFO)hDIB,		// lpBitsInfo
		DIB_RGB_COLORS);		// wUsage
	
	
	pDC->SelectPalette(pOldPalette, FALSE);
}

Comments:

• Want to load any image file - Mukti (2003/12/02)
• 16 bit and 24 bit images - gumber (2003/02/13)
• A few bug - Peter Taran (2002/10/08)
• binarize a gray scale image - greg (2001/03/29)
• Doubt - Yew (2000/11/06)
• 12-bit grayscale bitmap - Jejo Koola (2000/04/17)
• Drawing an BYTE array with scaling and the columns = 4*N problem - Stanislav Koncebovski (2000/01/16)
• Converting single RGB to grayscale - Petr Novotny (1999/03/05)
• Update to cope with 16 and 24 bit images - Guy Gascoigne - Piggford (1998/09/25)