openGL texturing shows only red component of texture - qt

Question

I am trying to texture map an image to a single polygon. My image is being read correctly, but only the red plane of the image is being textured.
I am doing this within a QGLWidget
I have checked the image after it is read, and it's components are being read correctly--ie, I get valid values for the green and blue planes.
Here is the code
QImageReader *theReader = new QImageReader();
theReader->setFileName(imageFileName);
QImage theImageRead = theReader->read();
if(theImageRead.isNull())
{
validTile = NOT_VALID_IMAGE_FILE;
return;
}
else
{
int newW = 1;
int newH = 1;
while(newW < theImageRead.width())
{
newW *= 2;
}
while(newH < theImageRead.height())
{
newH *= 2;
}
theImageRead = theImageRead.scaled(newW, newH, Qt::IgnoreAspectRatio, Qt::SmoothTransformation);
// values checked in theImageRead are OK here
glGenTextures(1,&textureObject);
theTextureImage = QGLWidget::convertToGLFormat(theImageRead);
// values checked in theTextureImage are OK here
glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, textureObject);
glTexImage2D(GL_TEXTURE_2D,0,GL_RGB,newW, newH, 0, GL_RGBA, GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE,theTextureImage.bits() );
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D,GL_TEXTURE_MIN_FILTER, GL_LINEAR);
glFlush();
validTile = VALID_TEXTURE;
return;
}
then I draw like this:
{
glEnable(GL_TEXTURE_2D);
glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D,textureTiles[tN]->getTextureObject() );
glBegin(GL_QUADS);
glTexCoord2f(0.0,0.0);
glVertex2f(textureTiles[tN]->lowerLeft.x(), textureTiles[tN]->lowerLeft.y());
glTexCoord2f(1.0,0.0);
glVertex2f(textureTiles[tN]->lowerRight.x(), textureTiles[tN]->lowerRight.y());
glTexCoord2f(1.0,1.0);
glVertex2f(textureTiles[tN]->upperRight.x(), textureTiles[tN]->upperRight.y());
glTexCoord2f(0.0,1.0);
glVertex2f(textureTiles[tN]->upperLeft.x(), textureTiles[tN]->upperLeft.y());
glEnd();
glDisable(GL_TEXTURE_2D);
}
Does anybody see anything that would cause my texture to be interpreded as if it is values of (r,0,0,1)? (r,g,b,a)?
QT 4.7.1, Ubuntu 10.04, openGl 2.something or other
thanks in advance for any help

Answer 1

I've had a similar problem. I found that I had to "reset" the gl color to white and opaque before drawing a texturized quad, or the colors would get messed up. Like this:
...
glEnable(GL_TEXTURE_2D);
glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D,textureTiles[tN]->getTextureObject() );
glColor4f(1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0); // reset gl color
glBegin(GL_QUADS);
...

Answer 2

This is a very common problem. First, set your MIN/MAG filters to something, since the defaults use mipmaps, and since you didn't provide mipmaps, the texture is incomplete.
Sampling a incomplete texture usually gives white. A glColor call with the default texture environment will multiply the vertex color with the texture color. You probably have something like glColor(red), and red * white = red, so that's why you're seeing red.
To fix it, set the MIN/MAG filters to GL_LINEAR or GL_NEAREST.