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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Application Ideas (was Re: Should kpaint stay in KDE 2.2/ Future of Killustrator?)
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-08-01 15:59:36
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On Wednesday 01 August 2001 03:53 am, Klaas Freitag wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Jul 2001, John Toon wrote:
> > It'd also be nice if it
> > could work with huge images in the same way that Macromedia xRes does,
> > enabling you to load huge images with little slowdown.
>
> Did anybody any investigation on that, loading huge images ? Is there
> anything like KIO::imageLoadJob - making it possible to display a progress
> bar etc ? If not, any suggestions how to make that ?  Is the KIO-idea
> correct so far ?

Using threads might actually be usefull in that area. It's a bit hard to load 
images through KIO. (You can load the file, but the conversion to an image 
needs to happen in-process)

For large images you probably want to do some fancy memory management as well.

Cheers,
Waldo
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