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jazz
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copying unsigned char array?

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Hey all. I'm trying to play around with wxImage alpha channel data and I seem to be a little stumped with how to handle unsigned char* 's properly.

Basically, wxImage::GetAlpha() returns a pointer to an unsigned char* array so I can directly manipulate the alpha channel. Before doing this though, I'd like to copy the array so I have an unmodified version that I can put back when I'm done.

So my question is, how can I copy an unsigned char* array? memcpy()? (which doesn't work). I'd also like to know how to get the length because strnlen() doesn't work either.

Anyone?
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Post by Martin »

Just guessing here, but the length could be

wxImage::GetHeight() * wxImage::GetWidth()

I would try something like this:

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  unsigned char* alphaCopy = new unsigned char[length];
  memcpy(alphaCopy, wxImage::GetAlpha(), length);
How does your memcpy code look like?
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Post by jazz »

Martin wrote:Just guessing here, but the length could be

wxImage::GetHeight() * wxImage::GetWidth()

I would try something like this:

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  unsigned char* alphaCopy = new unsigned char[length];
  memcpy(alphaCopy, wxImage::GetAlpha(), length);
How does your memcpy code look like?
Geez i can be such a n00b sometimes. I swear i tried that, except you just showed me that my syntax was incorrect. I was doing

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new unsigned char( length )
instead of

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new unsigned char[length]
which seems to cause a segfault.

Thanks heaps.
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