imread and CString

djtommye
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Okay - I feel really stupid asking this question. But I've fought for this for two days now...

I'm writing in Visual Studio, C++. I'm passing an LPSTR to a function and, in that function, referencing the LPSTR to open a file. But it fails. If I hard-code a value, it succeeds. I'm getting all kinds of typecast warnings. I coded for 12 years but have been out of the business for 16 - so I'm getting back up to speed. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

BOOL CImageDialog::DisplayImage(LPCTSTR pszImageFilePath)
{
    Mat im = imread(pszImageFilePath);

    if (!im.data) {
        return FALSE;
    }
...

Yields:

no suitable constructor exists to convert from "LPCTSTR" to "std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char>>"
cv::Mat cv::imread(const std::string &,int)': cannot convert argument 1 from 'LPCTSTR' to 'const std::string &'

I've tried passing other types, but they all cause issues. Thank you in advance!

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answered May 26 '17

black9
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updated May 26 '17

 string PointToString(LPCTSTR filepath){               //function to convert LPCTSRT to string
std::stringstream ss;
ss << filepath;
return ss.str(); }



//your function

 BOOL DisplayImage(LPCTSTR pszImageFilePath){
string imagepath = PointToString(pszImageFilePath);   //call function PointToString
Mat im = imread(imagepath);
if (!im.data) {
    return FALSE;
}}