OpenGL bitmap program only displaying white, black, and yellow?

Question

I am using a library at http://partow.net/programming/bitmap/index.html and OpenGL to make a function to load a bitmap on my screen. the image loads but it only displays black, white, and yellow. I am using Dev C++ on Windows 7. Here is my code:

void Load_Image(HDC hDC, string File_Name, int x_position, int y_position, int length, int height)
{     
bitmap_image image(File_Name);      // Open the bitmap
unsigned char red;
unsigned char green;
unsigned char blue;
restart:
image.get_pixel(x_position, y_position, red, green, blue);     // Get the red green and blue from x_position and y_position and store it in red green and blue. 
glBegin (GL_TRIANGLES);                                        // Make a pixel at x_position and y_position with red green and blue.
glColor3f (red, green, blue);
glVertex2f (-1 + 0.0015 * x_position, 1 - 0.003 * y_position);
glVertex2f (-1 + 0.0015 * x_position, 0.997 - 0.003 * y_position);
glVertex2f (-0.9985 + 0.0015 * x_position, 1 - 0.003 * y_position);
glEnd();
glBegin (GL_TRIANGLES);
glColor3f (red, green, blue);
glVertex2f (-1 + 0.0015 * x_position, 0.997 - 0.003 * y_position);
glVertex2f (-0.9985 + 0.0015 * x_position, 1 - 0.003 * y_position);
glVertex2f (-0.9985 + 0.0015 * x_position, 0.997 - 0.003 * y_position);
glEnd();
if (x_position==length)      // If x_position equals to length of bmp set x_position to 0 and add 1 to y_position.
{
if (y_position==height)      // If bmp is done loading go to done.
{
goto done;
}
x_position = 0;
y_position = y_position + 1;
}
x_position = x_position + 1;
goto restart;
done:         
SwapBuffers(hDC);            // Put it on the screen.
}

Any ideas on what's wrong? Thanks!

Answer 1

The color values red, green, blue are of type unsigned char and in the range 0..255. The floating point variant of glColor, glColor3f however expects input values in the range 0..1. Try using glColor3ub() instead.

UPDATED: My original answer suggested glColor3b() but it should be the unsigned variant glColor3ub().