I'm having trouble displaying an image (PNG extracted with libpng) into an XCB window, it is always entirely empty/white. I'm pretty sure the PNG extraction is correct since I can perfectly re-write it into another file.
I've tried everything I found (explanations, guides, documentation) and I'm running out of ideas:
- Creating an
xcb_pixmap_t
callingxcb_create_pixmap_from_bitmap_data()
with the data taken from the PNG, then callingxcb_copy_area()
into the EXPOSE part of the event loop. - Creating an
xcb_image_t*
callingxcb_image_create_from_bitmap_data()
then trying to map it to the window withxcb_image_put()
. I've even tried to display each pixel withxcb_image_put_pixel()
, but without success.
Code sample:
xcb_pixmap_t pixmap = xcb_create_pixmap_from_bitmap_data(
connection, // xcb_connect(0, 0) (type: xcb_connection_t*)
window, // xcb_generate_id(connection) (type: xcb_window_t)
img.getData(), // uint8_t*
img.getWidth(), // 128
img.getHeight(), // 128
img.getBitDepth(), // 8
screen->black_pixel, // screen = xcb_setup_roots_iterator(xcb_get_setup(connection)).data (type: xcb_screen_t*)
screen->white_pixel,
nullptr);
// "img" is an instance of my own custom class, result of PNG reading
xcb_image_t* image = xcb_image_create_from_bitmap_data(
img.getData(),
img.getWidth(),
img.getHeight()); // image->data seems fine
xcb_image_put(connection,
window,
graphicsContext,
image, 0, 0, 0); // This does nothing
for (unsigned int i = 0; i < screen->height_in_pixels; ++i)
for (unsigned int j = 0; j < screen->width_in_pixels; ++j)
xcb_image_put_pixel(image, j, i, 0); // Displays nothing
[...]
// Into event loop
case XCB_EXPOSE: {
xcb_expose_event_t* exposeEvent = reinterpret_cast<xcb_expose_event_t*>(event);
xcb_copy_area(connection,
pixmap,
window,
graphicsContext,
exposeEvent->x, exposeEvent->y, // Top left x & y coordinates of the source's region to copy
exposeEvent->x, exposeEvent->y, // Top left x & y coordinates of the destination's region to copy to
exposeEvent->width,
exposeEvent->height);
xcb_flush(connection);
break;
}
From the examples I found I saw that it didn't need a colormap, but could that be the case? Could anyone tell me where I've gone wrong?