CDibImage v1.28 An MFC class framework to encapsulate Device Independent Bitmaps (DIBs) and Image Processing

Some of its many features include:

• Support for loading of DIBs from file, resource and global memory. DIB, Jpeg and Targa Truevision support is included.
• Working area support including a user extensible architecture.
• Comprehensive filter matrices including 3*3, 5*5 and 7*7.
• User defined filter support.
• Comprehensive undo and redo support including end user adjustment of levels and description strings.
• Built in functions to convert between the RGB and HSL color spaces.
• Full file save support.
• Full clipboard support.
• Full Screen capture support.
• Comprehensive collection of image processing functions including brightness, contrast, gamma, HSL, blur, edge, noise, RGB, mirror, negate and grayscale plus many others.
• Selection of histogram & channel functions.
• Single function support for GDI drawing & printing.
• Includes GetPixel and SetPixel functions to allow end user modification of bitmap data.
• Fully supports the UNICODE programming model.
• Comprehensive documentation of all the classes is provided.

Included in the package is a demo program which implements a simple image processing application using CDibImage. When run it appears as follows:

Shareware Notice

CDibImage is shareware and this trial version is fully functional evaluation version. This means that you are free to evaluate and use it for up to 30 days. After this period if you are still using CDibImage then you should register CDibImage with the author. 

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Updates

V1.0 (18 November 1997)

• Initial public release.

V1.01 (9 November 1998)

• Help file now uses Arial instead of Verdanda font. This is consistent with the rest of my code
• Code now ships with a VC 5 workspace file instead of a VC 4.x mak file
• Fixed an off by one bug which was occurring when you flipped or mirrored certain images.
• Fixed the undo message when you mirrored an image
• Renamed the undo strings which need to be included to use CDibImage
• Updated version info in the sample app.

V1.1 (26 July 1999)

• Unicode enabled the code + provision of Unicode configurations in the workspace.
• Inclusion of a C3By3MeanFilter.
• Tidy up of how CDibImage disposes of its resources.
• Addition of a Detach method.
• Pixel access is now supported for 1, 4, 8 and 24 bit pixel formats.
• Function to convert from a HBITMAP to a DIB.
• Function to convert to a HBITMAP.
• Function to screen capture a specified area of a specified window.
• Function to convert to 24 bits.
• Unified all the low-level API to manage DIB files into as single source code.
• ColorsUsed function has now been implemented.
• General tidy up and spell check of the help file.

V1.11 (6 September 1999)

• Provision of an IsRunLengthEncoded function.
• Updates to the DataFormatSupported function to prevent access violations in the dibedit sample application

V1.2 (6 September 1999)

• Now includes full Jpeg read / write support by means of the Intel Jpeg Library (IJL). This library provides royalty free support for Jpegs on the Wintel platform on Pentium computers or better. A cut down version of IJL is included in this CDibImage distribution. For further details and to download the full SDK, please see the IJL web site at http://developer.intel.com/vtune/PERFLIBST/ijl/index.htm. Most of the Jpeg work was kindly provided in CDibImage by RC FOTESCU.

V1.21 (21 September 1999)

• Fixed a bug in the function WindowToDIB which is used by CDibImage::CopyFromWindow.

V1.22 (3 October 1999)

• Optimized memory usage when loading and saving JPEG images from file.

V1.23 (24 January 2000)

• Updated code to use Intel Jpeg Library v1.1.

V1.24 (8 March 2000)

• Added support for True color targa (.tga) file loading and saving
• jpeg loading and saving code thoroughly reviewed and optimized
• The sample app now clears the histogram correctly when there are no views visible.

V1.25 (20 March 2000)

• Modified some code in CDibImage which was causing the VC++ 6 compiler to bomb out
• Removed a number of unreferenced variables detected by VC++ 6.
• Removed a number of useless comments in tgaapi.cpp

V1.26 (24 March 2000)

• Fixed a problem with the archive not containing the files to support Targa support, specifically tgaapi.cpp and tgaapi.h

V1.27 (2 April 2000)

• Fixed an access violation in ::ReadJPegFile
• Added a call to GlobalUnlock which was missing in CDibImage::UserDefinedFilter

V1.28 (31 October 2000)

• Updated code to use Intel Jpeg Library v1.5.

23 December 2005

• Please note at some stage in the not too distant future I plan to rework the class to be based on the new ATL / MFC CImage class and probably make it open source. Your feedback on this would be welcome!.