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Strider007
Strider007

Reputation: 4945

Get BitmapSource From Image Control

why the following code is returning null for btmSrc ?

DrawingImage drawingElement =(DrawingImage)System.Windows.Application.Current.TryFindResource(name);
 System.Windows.Controls.Image image = new System.Windows.Controls.Image();
 image.Source = drawingElement as ImageSource;

BitmapSource btmSrc = image.Source as BitmapSource;

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2167

Answers (1)

Julien Roncaglia
Julien Roncaglia

Reputation: 17837

Simplifying your code :

DrawingImage drawingElement = (DrawingImage)System.Windows.Application.Current.TryFindResource(name);
BitmapSource btmSrc = drawingElement as BitmapSource;

As DrawingImage doesn't inherit from BitmapSource, the result will be null.

I don't have a DrawingImage to test (so take this as a pseudocode not as a copy-paste solution) but the conversion code should look something like this :

// Create a visual from a drawing
DrawingVisual drawingVisual = new DrawingVisual();
drawingVisual.Drawing.Children.Add(drawingImage.Drawing);

// Render it to a WPF bitmap
var renderTargetBitmap = new RenderTargetBitmap(
    drawingVisual.Drawing.Bounds.Right,
    drawingVisual.Drawing.Bounds.Bottom, 96, 96, PixelFormats.Pbgra32);
renderTargetBitmap.Render(drawingVisual);

// Create a bitmap with the correct size
Bitmap bmp = new Bitmap(renderTargetBitmap.PixelWidth,
    renderTargetBitmap.PixelHeight,  PixelFormat.Format32bppPArgb);
BitmapData data = bmp.LockBits(new Rectangle(Point.Empty, bmp.Size),
    ImageLockMode.WriteOnly, PixelFormat.Format32bppPArgb);
renderTargetBitmap.CopyPixels(Int32Rect.Empty, data.Scan0,
    data.Height * data.Stride, data.Stride);
bmp.UnlockBits(data);

The last part being taken from Is there a good way to convert between BitmapSource and Bitmap?

Upvotes: 1

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