_LOADIMAGE supported image types

[TerryRitchie]

What's the official image types supported by _LOADIMAGE? In the Wiki this is stated:

"Various common image file formats supported, like BMP, JPG, PNG, etc. A path can also be given."

It's the "etc." that is throwing me. Are there more than just BMP, JPG, and PNG? I know in the SDL version the following were supported:

BMP, JPG, PNG, GIF, PNM, XPM, XCF, PCX, TIF, LBM, and TGA.

Does that still hold true for later versions?

[SMcNeill]

BMP, JPG, PNG, GIF are all I know which is supported, which is why I never expect to expand my Save Image library beyond those 4 formats.

[40wattstudio]

JP2 doesn't work. I tried that one a while back.

[Cobalt]

JPEG "Progressive" format does not work either.
however JPEG "Entropy Optimization" does.

both those affect the final file size and can make it a fair deal smaller, while maintaining a decent level of quality.


was kind of bummed that PCX doesn't work natively as almost all my old QB45 programs use that format for the sprite sheets and such.

[FellippeHeitor]

Officially: BMP, JPG and PNG. Check internal/c/parts/video/image/decode

Now we do have a fallback library (check internal/c/parts/video/image/decode/other) which is tried when none of the file format routines succeeds. I just checked that there is a newer version of it available (https://github.com/nothings/stb) and we may get this new version in the upcoming update to QB64 (v1.4.5?).

[FellippeHeitor]

These are the formats currently supported by stb: JPEG, PNG, BMP, GIF, PSD, PIC, PNM, TGA.

Code: C++: [Select]

1. static unsigned char *stbi_load_main(stbi__context *s, int *x, int *y, int *comp, int req_comp)
2. {
3.    #ifndef STBI_NO_JPEG
4.    if (stbi__jpeg_test(s)) return stbi__jpeg_load(s,x,y,comp,req_comp);
5.    #endif
6.    #ifndef STBI_NO_PNG
7.    if (stbi__png_test(s))  return stbi__png_load(s,x,y,comp,req_comp);
8.    #endif
9.    #ifndef STBI_NO_BMP
10.    if (stbi__bmp_test(s))  return stbi__bmp_load(s,x,y,comp,req_comp);
11.    #endif
12.    #ifndef STBI_NO_GIF
13.    if (stbi__gif_test(s))  return stbi__gif_load(s,x,y,comp,req_comp);
14.    #endif
15.    #ifndef STBI_NO_PSD
16.    if (stbi__psd_test(s))  return stbi__psd_load(s,x,y,comp,req_comp);
17.    #endif
18.    #ifndef STBI_NO_PIC
19.    if (stbi__pic_test(s))  return stbi__pic_load(s,x,y,comp,req_comp);
20.    #endif
21.    #ifndef STBI_NO_PNM
22.    if (stbi__pnm_test(s))  return stbi__pnm_load(s,x,y,comp,req_comp);
23.    #endif
24.  
25.    #ifndef STBI_NO_HDR
26.    if (stbi__hdr_test(s)) {
27.       float *hdr = stbi__hdr_load(s, x,y,comp,req_comp);
28.       return stbi__hdr_to_ldr(hdr, *x, *y, req_comp ? req_comp : *comp);
29.    }
30.    #endif
31.  
32.    #ifndef STBI_NO_TGA
33.    // test tga last because it's a crappy test!
34.    if (stbi__tga_test(s))
35.       return stbi__tga_load(s,x,y,comp,req_comp);
36.    #endif
37.  
38.    return stbi__errpuc("unknown image type", "Image not of any known type, or corrupt");
39. }

[TerryRitchie]

Thanks Fell, I'll include that in the tutorial.