Hi,

I've got some trouble opening files saved by The Gimp in BMP 16bits 565. I've test some various bmp they all work except those saved from The Gimp and I really don't know why the format might be different from the one found there:http://wvnvaxa.wvnet.edu/vmswww/bmp.html
Bleu.bmp and Mire.bmp are some files that can't be show properly while test16bf565.bmp can be open.
I've written a little program that load BMP and show them by a label with a pyQt window.
It looks like this :

from PyQt4 import QtGui, QtCore
import sys, os

class Ui_ShowBmp(QtGui.QMainWindow):
    def setupUi(self, ShowBmp):
        ShowBmp.setObjectName("ShowBmp")
        ShowBmp.resize(660, 529)
        sizePolicy = QtGui.QSizePolicy(QtGui.QSizePolicy.Preferred, QtGui.QSizePolicy.Preferred)
        sizePolicy.setHorizontalStretch(0)
        sizePolicy.setVerticalStretch(0)
        sizePolicy.setHeightForWidth(ShowBmp.sizePolicy().hasHeightForWidth())
        ShowBmp.setSizePolicy(sizePolicy)
        self.centralwidget = QtGui.QWidget(ShowBmp)
        self.centralwidget.setObjectName("centralwidget")
        self.verticalLayout_2 = QtGui.QVBoxLayout(self.centralwidget)
        self.verticalLayout_2.setObjectName("verticalLayout_2")
        self.verticalLayout = QtGui.QVBoxLayout()
        self.verticalLayout.setObjectName("verticalLayout")
        self.label = QtGui.QLabel(self.centralwidget)
        self.label.setPixmap(QtGui.QPixmap("Sample.bmp"))
        self.label.setObjectName("label")
        self.verticalLayout.addWidget(self.label)
        self.loadButton = QtGui.QPushButton(self.centralwidget)
        sizePolicy = QtGui.QSizePolicy(QtGui.QSizePolicy.Fixed, QtGui.QSizePolicy.Fixed)
        sizePolicy.setHorizontalStretch(0)
        sizePolicy.setVerticalStretch(0)
        sizePolicy.setHeightForWidth(self.loadButton.sizePolicy().hasHeightForWidth())
        self.loadButton.setSizePolicy(sizePolicy)
        self.loadButton.setObjectName("loadButton")
        self.verticalLayout.addWidget(self.loadButton)
        self.verticalLayout_2.addLayout(self.verticalLayout)
        ShowBmp.setCentralWidget(self.centralwidget)

        self.retranslateUi(ShowBmp)
        QtCore.QMetaObject.connectSlotsByName(ShowBmp)

    def retranslateUi(self, ShowBmp):
        ShowBmp.setWindowTitle(QtGui.QApplication.translate("ShowBmp", "MainWindow", None, QtGui.QApplication.UnicodeUTF8))
        self.loadButton.setText(QtGui.QApplication.translate("ShowBmp", "Load", None, QtGui.QApplication.UnicodeUTF8))

class Ui_Extension(Ui_ShowBmp):
    def __init__ (self):
        self.app = QtGui.QApplication(sys.argv)
        QtGui.QMainWindow.__init__(self)
        self.window = QtGui.QMainWindow()
        self.setupUi(self.window)
        self.createSignals()
        self.window.show()
        self.curdir = os.getcwd()
        (self.xsize,self.ysize) = ("0","0")
        
    def createSignals(self):
        QtCore.QObject.connect(self.loadButton, QtCore.SIGNAL("clicked()"), self.pushedLoadBmpButton)
    def pushedLoadBmpButton(self):
        self.imagepath = QtGui.QFileDialog.getOpenFileName(self,"Select BMP", self.curdir, ("BMP (*.bmp)"))
        (self.xsize,self.ysize) = self.getSize(self.imagepath)
        self.image = QtGui.QImage(str(self.imagepath))
        self.label.setGeometry(10, 10,int(self.xsize), int(self.ysize))
        self.label.setPixmap(QtGui.QPixmap.fromImage(self.image))
    def getSize(self,filepath): 
'''Return the size from the bmp loaded'''
        file = open(filepath,"rb")
        fileread = file.read()
        file.close()
        header = fileread[:71]
        xpixels = header[21:17:-1]
        xlist = []
        for c in xpixels:
            data = str(hex(ord(c)))
            if len(data) == 3:
                data = 'x0'.join(data.split('x'))
            xlist.append(data)
        xsize = int('0x'+''.join(''.join(xlist).split('0x')),base = 16)

        ypixels = header[25:21:-1]
        ylist = []
        for c in ypixels:
            data = str(hex(ord(c)))
            if len(data) == 3:
                data = 'x0'.join(data.split('x'))
            ylist.append(data)
        ysize = int('0x'+''.join(''.join(ylist).split('0x')),base = 16)
        return (str(xsize),str(ysize))





class Ui_ShowBmp(QtGui.QMainWindow):
    def setupUi(self, ShowBmp):
        ShowBmp.setObjectName("ShowBmp")
        ShowBmp.resize(660, 529)
        sizePolicy = QtGui.QSizePolicy(QtGui.QSizePolicy.Preferred, QtGui.QSizePolicy.Preferred)
        sizePolicy.setHorizontalStretch(0)
        sizePolicy.setVerticalStretch(0)
        sizePolicy.setHeightForWidth(ShowBmp.sizePolicy().hasHeightForWidth())
        ShowBmp.setSizePolicy(sizePolicy)
        self.centralwidget = QtGui.QWidget(ShowBmp)
        self.centralwidget.setObjectName("centralwidget")
        self.verticalLayout_2 = QtGui.QVBoxLayout(self.centralwidget)
        self.verticalLayout_2.setObjectName("verticalLayout_2")
        self.verticalLayout = QtGui.QVBoxLayout()
        self.verticalLayout.setObjectName("verticalLayout")
        self.label = QtGui.QLabel(self.centralwidget)
        self.label.setPixmap(QtGui.QPixmap("Sample.bmp"))
        self.label.setObjectName("label")
        self.verticalLayout.addWidget(self.label)
        self.loadButton = QtGui.QPushButton(self.centralwidget)
        sizePolicy = QtGui.QSizePolicy(QtGui.QSizePolicy.Fixed, QtGui.QSizePolicy.Fixed)
        sizePolicy.setHorizontalStretch(0)
        sizePolicy.setVerticalStretch(0)
        sizePolicy.setHeightForWidth(self.loadButton.sizePolicy().hasHeightForWidth())
        self.loadButton.setSizePolicy(sizePolicy)
        self.loadButton.setObjectName("loadButton")
        self.verticalLayout.addWidget(self.loadButton)
        self.verticalLayout_2.addLayout(self.verticalLayout)
        ShowBmp.setCentralWidget(self.centralwidget)

        self.retranslateUi(ShowBmp)
        QtCore.QMetaObject.connectSlotsByName(ShowBmp)

    def retranslateUi(self, ShowBmp):
        ShowBmp.setWindowTitle(QtGui.QApplication.translate("ShowBmp", "MainWindow", None, QtGui.QApplication.UnicodeUTF8))
        self.loadButton.setText(QtGui.QApplication.translate("ShowBmp", "Load", None, QtGui.QApplication.UnicodeUTF8))



def ShowBmp():
    ui = Ui_Extension()
    sys.exit(ui.app.exec_())

if __name__ == '__main__':
    ShowBmp()

Thanks in advance for your help

With a simple hex editor you can see that the GIMP file headers are completely different.

Cheers and happy coding

Well I've actually check this before posting and I've seen that the headers were quite different. Does this mean I'm gonna have to create a homemade reader and decoder? I wish I could find an other way...

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