Saving/Loading QImages

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Wednesday, August 18th 2004, 6:07am

G'day all,
Just wondering if there was some way to get into the save/load routines of QImages, to be able to display a progress bar.
For instance, if I save an image that is 12mb, it takes a while, and at the moment I plan to run it in its own thread so at least I don't get ui lag issues, but it would be nice if I could display a progress bar or something similar as it saves.

Anyone have any ideas on how to do this?
Thanks in advance,
Dave

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djanubis

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Wednesday, August 18th 2004, 7:02am

RE: Saving/Loading QImages

You cannot directly poke into QImage::save methods. So it seems to me that the simplest way would be subclassing QImage and add members:

	Source code
1 2 3	bool QImage::visualSave ( const QString & fileName, const char * format, int quality = -1 ) const bool QImage::visualSave ( QIODevice * device, const char * format, int quality = -1 ) const

or whatever name you need.
In the implementation, you create your progress bar and control it from the method.

You can also try using a personalized QImageIO object.

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