Picturebox question

[Omelskitot]

id like to know if its possible. i need to find the location of black and white color in the picturebox. per pixel and store it to array. for example; there are color black from x1 to y5. i want to store it to array example; pixel[x1,y1],[x1,y2],[x1,y3],[x1,y4],[x1,y5] how can i do it automatically? Tnx in advance

[Killer42]

The code posted in your later question, which converts a picture to grayscale, should be quite capable of examining each pixel and telling you whether it's black or white.

Do you still need further help with this one?

[Omelskitot]

yes sir i still need further help with this one?

[Killer42]

Not sure exactly what aspect of this you need help with.

Most likely you're looking at a slight variation on your "gray scale" code. For example, let's assume you have a global or form-level two-dimensional array of type Boolean called ThisIsBlack().

Dim Color As Long
Dim i As Long
Dim j As Long
Picture2.ScaleMode = vbPixels
X = Picture2.ScaleWidth - 1
Y = Picture2.ScaleHeight - 1
ReDim ThisIsBlack (X, Y)
For i = 0 To Y
  For j = 0 To X
    Color = Picture2.Point(j, i)
    If Color = 0& Then
      ThisIsBlack (j, i) = True
    End If
  Next
Next

This is just quickly typed here so may need some debugging. but that should populate your array to show which pixels are black.

[Omelskitot]

where can i view the output? on a textbox?

[Killer42]

That's kind of a tough one to answer. The sample code I provided doesn't produce any output, except for the values in the array.

To see these values, you'd have to display them in some way. For example you might place them in a textbox, show them on another picturebox (Pset), print them to the output window (Debug.Print) or in some other way.

[Omelskitot]

I saw this code made by PsychoCoder

    Private Declare Function GetPixel Lib "gdi32" (ByVal hdc As Long, ByVal x As Long, ByVal y As Long) As Long
     
    Private Sub Form_Load()
        pixBox.Picture = LoadPicture("YourPicturePath")
        Dim i As Long, j As Long, nBlack As Long, nWhite As Long, pHdc As Long, tempColor As Long
        Show
        With pixBox
            pHdc = .hdc
            .ScaleMode = 3
            For i = 0 To .ScaleWidth
                For j = 0 To .ScaleHeight
                    tempColor = GetPixel(pHdc, i, j)
                    If tempColor = vbWhite Then
                        nWhite = nWhite + 1
                    ElseIf tempColor = vbBlack Then
                        nBlack = nBlack + 1
                    End If
                Next
            Next
        End With
        MsgBox "White : " & nWhite & vbCrLf & "Black : " & nBlack, vbInformation
    End Sub

Close enough on what im planning to do. but this one count all the black and white how can manipulate this that it can output the pixel(x,y) of the black and white? Thanks

[Killer42]

Well, instead of adding up a counter for black or white, you could print out the coordinates (in this case, i and j) and "black" or "white". It all depends on what you want to do with this output. Is it just for testing so you can check the code is working?

[Omelskitot]

Here's the example the output show the total number of black and white, Now my question is how can i see each pixel of the color black. in the picture x axis i assume the number is the last pixel for white and the y axis for the last pixel for black

[Omelskitot]

i add text1.text for the i and text2.text for the j

 With Picture2
            pHdc = .hdc
            .ScaleMode = 3
            For i = 0 To .ScaleWidth
                For j = 0 To .ScaleHeight
                    tempColor = GetPixel(pHdc, i, j)
                 
                    If tempColor = vbWhite Then
                        nWhite = nWhite + 1
                        Text1.Text = i
                        
                    ElseIf tempColor = vbBlack Then
                        nBlack = nBlack + 1
                        Text2.Text = j