/// <summary>
/// Construct an instance of empty (to be filled with the setContent() method) TIFFdata given type id and counts of data.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="id">Type id</param>
/// <param name="count">Counts of data.</param>
public TiffData(TIFFdataType type, int count)
{
this.type = type;
getDataTypeInfo(type, out nBytes, out dataType);
this.count = count;
content = Array.CreateInstance(dataType, 0);
}
/// <summary>
/// Find number of byete and underlying C# data type
/// </summary>
/// <param name="type">TIFF data type</param>
/// <param name="nBytes">Size of TIFF data type in bytes</param>
/// <param name="dataType">Underlying C# data type</param>
public static void getDataTypeInfo(TIFFdataType type, out int nBytes, out Type dataType)
{
switch (type)
{
case TIFFdataType.Byte:
nBytes = 1;
dataType = typeof(byte);
break;
case TIFFdataType.Ascii:
nBytes = 1;
dataType = typeof(char);
break;
case TIFFdataType.Short:
nBytes = 2;
dataType = typeof(ushort);
break;
case TIFFdataType.Long:
nBytes = 4;
dataType = typeof(uint);
break;
case TIFFdataType.Rational:
nBytes = 8;
dataType = typeof(uint);
break;
case TIFFdataType.SignedByte:
nBytes = 1;
dataType = typeof(sbyte);
break;
case TIFFdataType.SignedShort:
nBytes = 2;
dataType = typeof(short);
break;
case TIFFdataType.SignedLong:
nBytes = 4;
dataType = typeof(int);
break;
case TIFFdataType.SignedRational:
nBytes = 8;
dataType = typeof(int);
break;
case TIFFdataType.Float:
nBytes = 4;
dataType = typeof(float);
break;
case TIFFdataType.Double:
nBytes = 8;
dataType = typeof(double);
break;
default:
type = TIFFdataType.Undefined;
nBytes = 1;
dataType = typeof(byte);
break;
}
}
