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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: kimgio and qimgio : nonsense.
From:       Sirtaj Singh Kang <ssk () physics ! unimelb ! edu ! au>
Date:       1999-05-23 14:36:27
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On Sun, 23 May 1999, Dirk A. Mueller wrote:

> Sirtaj Singh Kang <ssk@physics.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
> 
> > I'd love to hear more about this; I've heard more than one person say 
> > that they were working on an imlib wrapper but I haven't seen anything
> > so far.
> 
> IIRC imlib's internal format is simply Truecolor ARGB.

If this is really the case, perhaps there is a way of fooling imlib's
load/save routines into using QImage::bits() to save the memory of
buffering the entire image before copying it into QImage for use by
QPixmap. 

Another possible method could be to write a custom convertFrom... function
to directly fill a QPixmap from an Imlib image. 

On a somewhat related topic, I'm interested in knowing, though, how Imlib
manages to render stuff to screen more quickly than QPixmap/QImageIO (I
haven't seen this; I haven't used kuickshow since trying it when it first
came out, but it wouldn't work for me - perhaps I had weird libraries or
something). QPixmap::convertFromImage seems quite compact to me, but if
there is an improvement that can be made... well, it should be made. :)

-Taj.

Sirtaj S. Kang       taj@kde.org         ssk@physics.unimelb.edu.au
Univ of Melbourne	
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