Monochrome image getting displayed as colored RGB image - windows

Question

Bitmap is constructed by pixel data(purely pixel data). The construction was done by properly setting the bitmap parameters like hieght,width, bitcount etc. Bitmap is actually constructed with CreateDIBsection. And the bitmap is loaded onto a CStatic object having Bitmap as property.
Image is getting displayed with proper width and content. But only difference is the content color is colored instead of scale of gray. For eg image is a white H letter on black Bground, instead of displaying it as whitish, say a blue colored H letter is displayed. Similar color changes applies for different images. Also, sometimes junk colored data appears deviating from original content of image apart from just the color change.
Bitmap is a 16 bit bitmap.
Please see below for code used for creating BitMap.
HDC is device context of CStatic variable in which the created bitmap is loaded;
I directly set the BitMap returned by below function to this variable using setbitmap function. CStatic varibale has also BitMap as one of its property. See below for function used to create bitmap.
Function parameter definitions.
PixMapHeight = number of rows in pixel matrix.
PixMapWidth = number of columns in pixel matrix.
BitsPerPixel = The bits stored for one pixel.
pPixMapBits = Void pointer to pixel array.(raw pixel data only! 16 bit per pixel).
DoBitmapFromPixels(HDC Hdc, UINT PixMapWidth, UINT PixMapHeight, UINT BitsPerPixel, LPVOID pPixMapBits)
BITMAPINFO *bmpInfo = (BITMAPINFO *)malloc(sizeof(BITMAPINFOHEADER) + sizeof(RGBQUAD) * 256);
BITMAPINFOHEADER &bmpInfoHeader(bmpInfo->bmiHeader);
bmpInfoHeader.biSize = sizeof(BITMAPINFOHEADER);
LONG lBmpSize = PixMapWidth * PixMapHeight * (BitsPerPixel / 8);
bmpInfoHeader.biWidth = PixMapWidth;
bmpInfoHeader.biHeight = -(static_cast<int>(PixMapHeight));
bmpInfoHeader.biPlanes = 1;
bmpInfoHeader.biBitCount = BitsPerPixel;
bmpInfoHeader.biCompression = BI_RGB;
bmpInfoHeader.biSizeImage = 0;
bmpInfoHeader.biClrUsed = 0;
bmpInfoHeader.biClrImportant = 0;
void *pPixelPtr = NULL;
HBITMAP hBitMap = CreateDIBSection(Hdc, bmpInfo, DIB_RGB_COLORS, &pPixelPtr, NULL, 0);
if (pPixMapBits != NULL)
{
BYTE* pbBits = (BYTE*)pPixMapBits;
BYTE *Pix = (BYTE *)pPixelPtr;
memcpy(Pix, ((BYTE*)pbBits + (lBmpSize * (CurrentFrame - 1))), lBmpSize);
}
free(bmpInfo);
return hBitMap;
The supposed output is the figure in the left of attached file. But I am getting a blue toned image as in right(never mind the scaling and exact match issue, put the image to depict the problem).
And also it will be very helpful if I know how RGB values are stored in 16 bits!

Answer 1

You never actually said what format pPixMapBits is in, but I'm guessing that it contains 16-bit values where 0 represents black, 32768 represents gray, and 65535 represents white.
You are creating a BITMAPINFOHEADER with bitBitCount = 16 and biCompression = BI_RGB. According to the documentation, if you set the fields that way, then:
Each WORD in the bitmap array represents a single pixel. The relative intensities of red, green, and blue are represented with five bits for each color component. The value for blue is in the least significant five bits, followed by five bits each for green and red. The most significant bit is not used.
This is not the same format as your source data, and you are doing no conversion, so you get junk. Note that the bitmap format you chose is capable of representing only 2^5 = 32 shades of gray, not 65536, so you will suffer loss of quality during the conversion.