Re: [Openexr-devel] Help: How to Read in an OpenEXR Image

[Florian Kainz]

Derek Gerstmann wrote:
> Kevin Erickson wrote:
>
> > I was wondering if anyone has an example of how to read in an OpenEXR 
> > image.  I am a student and new to this image format, I have read the 
> > documentation on this but the documentation examples do not address 
> > what headers need to be included to accomplish this.
>
>
> The examples on the OpenEXR webpage do an excellent job of explaining
> this.
>
> Check out the following:
> http://www.openexr.org/api.html
>
> ...
>
> As far as declarations in c++, you'll need the following:
>
> #include <ImfInputFile.h>
> #include <ImfOutputFile.h>
> #include <ImfChannelList.h>
> #include <ImfFrameBuffer.h>
> #include <ImfStringAttribute.h>
> #include <half.h> // optional if you're not using the half datatype
>
> using namespace Imf;
> using namespace Imath;
>
> ...

The OpenEXR source package contains a subdirectory, IlmImfExamples,
with compilable versions of the programming examples given in the
api.html document, with #include statements for all necessary header
files.

Florian