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    Default Converting some element of QByteArray to Integer

    Hi
    I'm trying to get the width of a bitmap from it's header. I open the bmp with QFile and with that i fill the QByteArray with file.readAll() func.
    The main concept was that i convert the QBA to Hexadecimal , and then convert the proper 4 bytest to integer.
    What I'm asking is, that is there any other possible ways to convert the 4 bytes of the QBA to integer?
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    Default Re: Converting some element of QByteArray to Integer

    No, "parsing" the content is the only way if you need to work with the data directly.
    If you load the image using QImage you can of course get the width from there.

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    Default Re: Converting some element of QByteArray to Integer

    Well, i have to solve this with the method i have mentioned (QFile). I hoped there is another way, but thank you for the answer anyways.

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    Default Re: Converting some element of QByteArray to Integer

    You can use QImageReader class to read image size without actually loading it's contents.

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    Default Re: [SOLVED]Converting some element of QByteArray to Integer

    you do not have to do any conversion, just access the data with the right pointer.

    First you might be aware that you have a header which preceed the data.
    After having loaded the whole dataset, you might read the header and extract at least the number of pixels and the offset of the pixel data within the file.

    Qt Code:
    1. QByteArray myBmp;
    2. // read the file content into the byte array
    3. int dataCount; // number of pixels, extracted from header
    4. int dataOffset; // data offset, extracted from header
    5. // initialize both values
    6. //Now get an integer pointer onto the data:
    7. int* pData = reinterpret_cast<int*>(myBmp.data())
    8. // and access the data
    9. for ( int i = 0; i < dataCount; ++i ) { // do it for each pixel
    10. pData[ dataOffset + i] ... // pData points to the pixel number i and returns an integer
    11. }
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    Default Re: [SOLVED]Converting some element of QByteArray to Integer

    You do need to be aware of byte order, compression, whether the bitmap file is indexed or not etc.

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