Why must “stride” in the System.Drawing.Bitmap constructor be a multiple of 4?

Question

I am writing an application that requires me to take a proprietary bitmap format (an MVTec Halcon HImage) and convert it into a System.Drawing.Bitmap in C#.

The only

Answer 1

Correct code:

public static void GetStride(int width, PixelFormat format, ref int stride, ref int bytesPerPixel)
{
    //int bitsPerPixel = ((int)format & 0xff00) >> 8;
    int bitsPerPixel = System.Drawing.Image.GetPixelFormatSize(format);
    bytesPerPixel = (bitsPerPixel + 7) / 8;
    stride = 4 * ((width * bytesPerPixel + 3) / 4);
}