Re: How to draw a transparent bitmap by masking

From:
Knute Johnson <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Sat, 02 Aug 2008 22:19:12 -0700
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fancyerii wrote:

On 8??3??, ????5??14??, Knute Johnson <nos...@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com>
wrote:

fancyerii wrote:

hi all,
     i've got a bitmap with green background. i wanna draw it in a
panel. By conventional method
Graphics2D.draw, the background is also painted. is there any simple
method to remove the background? just like a windows api--
TransparentBlt? thanks.

By bitmap do you mean image file?

How does TransparentBlt work?

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Here is a example
FootballBMP is a bitmap of a football with blue background.

CBitmap FootballBMP;
FootballBMP.LoadBitmap(IDB_FOOTBALLBMP);
CDC ImageDC;
ImageDC.CreateCompatibleDC(pDC);
CBitmap *pOldImageBMP = ImageDC.SelectObject(&FootballBMP);
TransparentBlt(pDC->m_hDC, 0, 0, 218, 199, ImageDC.m_hDC, 0, 0, 218,
199, RGB(0,0,0xff));
ImageDC.SelectObject(pOldImageBMP);


That may be a code example but is surely doesn't explain what it does.

Here is one way of replacing green pixels with green pixels with an
alpha of zero.

import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.awt.image.*;
import javax.swing.*;

public class test4 extends JPanel {
    BufferedImage image;

    public test4() {
        // create an image with alpha
        image = new BufferedImage(400,300,BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB);
        // set preferred size to size of image
        setPreferredSize(new Dimension(image.getWidth(),image.getHeight()));
        // get graphics
        Graphics2D g = image.createGraphics();
        // add anti-aliasing
        g.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_ANTIALIASING,
         RenderingHints.VALUE_ANTIALIAS_ON);
        // draw green on the whole image
        g.setColor(Color.GREEN);
        g.fillRect(0,0,image.getWidth(),image.getHeight());
        // draw red circle in the center of image
        g.setColor(Color.RED);
        g.fillOval(image.getWidth()/2-50,image.getHeight()/2-50,100,100);
        // get the pixels of the upper left corner
        int[] pixels = image.getRGB(0,0,170,150,null,0,image.getWidth());
        // replace all green with green/alpha 0
        for (int i=0; i<pixels.length; i++)
            if (pixels[i] == new Color(0,255,0,255).getRGB())
                pixels[i] = new Color(0,255,0,0).getRGB();
        // set changed pixels back into image
        image.setRGB(0,0,170,150,pixels,0,image.getWidth());
    }

    public void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
        g.drawImage(image,0,0,null);
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
            public void run() {
                JFrame f = new JFrame();
                f.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
                test4 t4 = new test4();
                f.add(t4,BorderLayout.CENTER);
                f.pack();
                f.setVisible(true);
            }
        });
    }
}

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