Silverlight 3 WritableBitmap pixel colour values

15 October 2009 (0)

Rather than taking an array of Color objects, the WritableBitmap.Pixels property holds an array on ints which represent premultiplied ARGB colour values. To set a given pixel to a given colour you have to take the alpha, red, green and blue values and convert them to a premultiplied ARGB int value.

The following code contains some helpers/extension methods to make the process bit easier, for example to set every pixel to red:

for (int index = 0; index < bmp.Pixels.Length; index++)
{
   Color myColour = new Color() { A = 255, R = 255, G = 0, B = 0 };
   bmp.Pixels[index] = myColour.ToWritableBitmapPixelValue();
}

 or using the Fill extension method:

bmp.Fill( new Color() { A = 255, R = 255, G = 0, B = 0 } );

WritableBitmapHelper class listing

using System;
using System.Net;
using System.Windows;
using System.Windows.Controls;
using System.Windows.Documents;
using System.Windows.Ink;
using System.Windows.Input;
using System.Windows.Media;
using System.Windows.Media.Animation;
using System.Windows.Shapes;
using System.Windows.Media.Imaging;

namespace BitmapAPI
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Helper methods\extension methods for dealing with WritableBitmap,
    /// in real world implementation you'd probably choose to separate the
    /// extension methods iinto separate static classes;
    /// eg WritableBitmapExtensions & ColorExtensions
    /// </summary>
    public static class WritableBitmapHelper
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Converts ARGB byte values to an integer
        /// Based on info found at:
        /// http://blogs.silverarcade.com/silverlight-games-101/15/silverlight-writeablebitmap-pixel-format-in-silverlight-3/
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="alpha">Alpha transparency: 0=transparent  255=solid</param>
        /// <param name="red">Amount of red: 0 to 255</param>
        /// <param name="green">Amount of green: 0 to 255</param>
        /// <param name="blue">Amount of blue: 0 to 255</param>
        /// <returns>An integer representing an ARGB color</returns>
        public static int CalcWritableBitmapPixelValue(byte alpha, byte red, byte green, byte blue)
        {
            // Calc premultiplier once only. We need to use premultiplied ARGB32
            // rather than convential ARGB.
            double alphaPreMultiplier = alpha / 255d;

            // Premultiply rgb values with alpha
            byte r = (byte)(red   * alphaPreMultiplier);
            byte g = (byte)(green * alphaPreMultiplier);
            byte b = (byte)(blue  * alphaPreMultiplier);

            return (alpha << 24) | (r << 16) | (g << 8) | b;
        }



        /// <summary>
        /// Extension method to convert a System.Windows.Media.Color to an integer value.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="color">The System.Windows.Media.Color to convert</param>
        /// <returns>An integer representing the ARGB values of <paramref name="color"/></returns>
        public static int ToWritableBitmapPixelValue(this Color color)
        {
            return CalcWritableBitmapPixelValue(color.A, color.R, color.G, color.B);
        }



        /// <summary>
        /// Extension method to 'fill' a WriteableBitmap with a given solid color
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="bmp">The WriteableBitmap to fill</param>
        /// <param name="color">The Color to fill with</param>
        public static void Fill(this WriteableBitmap bmp, Color color)
        {
            for (int i = 0; i < bmp.Pixels.Length; i++)
            {
                bmp.Pixels[i] = color.ToWritableBitmapPixelValue();
            }
        }

    }
}

 

 

 

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