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These rights are described in the Digia Qt LGPL Exception ** version 1.1, included in the file LGPL_EXCEPTION.txt in this package. ** ** GNU General Public License Usage ** Alternatively, this file may be used under the terms of the GNU ** General Public License version 3.0 as published by the Free Software ** Foundation and appearing in the file LICENSE.GPL included in the ** packaging of this file. Please review the following information to ** ensure the GNU General Public License version 3.0 requirements will be ** met: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html. ** ** ** $QT_END_LICENSE$ ** ****************************************************************************/ #include "qdeclarativeimageprovider.h" QT_BEGIN_NAMESPACE class QDeclarativeImageProviderPrivate { public: QDeclarativeImageProvider::ImageType type; }; /*! \class QDeclarativeImageProvider \since 4.7 \brief The QDeclarativeImageProvider class provides an interface for supporting pixmaps and threaded image requests in QML. QDeclarativeImageProvider is used to provide advanced image loading features in QML applications. It allows images in QML to be: \list \li Loaded using QPixmaps rather than actual image files \li Loaded asynchronously in a separate thread, if imageType() is \l{QDeclarativeImageProvider::ImageType}{ImageType::Image} \endlist To specify that an image should be loaded by an image provider, use the \b {"image:"} scheme for the URL source of the image, followed by the identifiers of the image provider and the requested image. For example: \qml Image { source: "image://myimageprovider/image.png" } \endqml This specifies that the image should be loaded by the image provider named "myimageprovider", and the image to be loaded is named "image.png". The QML engine invokes the appropriate image provider according to the providers that have been registered through QDeclarativeEngine::addImageProvider(). Note that the identifiers are case-insensitive, but the rest of the URL will be passed on with preserved case. For example, the below snippet would still specify that the image is loaded by the image provider named "myimageprovider", but it would request a different image than the above snippet ("Image.png" instead of "image.png"). \qml Image { source: "image://MyImageProvider/Image.png" } \endqml If you want the rest of the URL to be case insensitive, you will have to take care of that yourself inside your image provider. \section2 An example Here are two images. Their \c source values indicate they should be loaded by an image provider named "colors", and the images to be loaded are "yellow" and "red", respectively: \snippet examples/declarative/cppextensions/imageprovider/imageprovider-example.qml 0 When these images are loaded by QML, it looks for a matching image provider and calls its requestImage() or requestPixmap() method (depending on its imageType()) to load the image. The method is called with the \c id parameter set to "yellow" for the first image, and "red" for the second. Here is an image provider implementation that can load the images requested by the above QML. This implementation dynamically generates QPixmap images that are filled with the requested color: \snippet examples/declarative/cppextensions/imageprovider/imageprovider.cpp 0 \codeline \snippet examples/declarative/cppextensions/imageprovider/imageprovider.cpp 1 To make this provider accessible to QML, it is registered with the QML engine with a "colors" identifier: \code int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { ... QDeclarativeEngine engine; engine->addImageProvider(QLatin1String("colors"), new ColorPixmapProvider); ... } \endcode Now the images can be successfully loaded in QML: \image imageprovider.png A complete example is available in Qt's \l {declarative/cppextensions/imageprovider}{examples/declarative/cppextensions/imageprovider} directory. Note the example registers the provider via a \l{QDeclarativeExtensionPlugin}{plugin} instead of registering it in the application \c main() function as shown above. \section2 Asynchronous image loading Image providers that support QImage loading automatically include support for asychronous loading of images. To enable asynchronous loading for an image source, set the \c asynchronous property to \c true for the relevant \l Image, \l BorderImage or \l AnimatedImage object. When this is enabled, the image request to the provider is run in a low priority thread, allowing image loading to be executed in the background, and reducing the performance impact on the user interface. Asynchronous loading is not supported for image providers that provide QPixmap rather than QImage values, as pixmaps can only be created in the main thread. In this case, if \l {Image::}{asynchronous} is set to \c true, the value is ignored and the image is loaded synchronously. \section2 Image caching Images returned by a QDeclarativeImageProvider are automatically cached, similar to any image loaded by the QML engine. When an image with a "image://" prefix is loaded from cache, requestImage() and requestPixmap() will not be called for the relevant image provider. If an image should always be fetched from the image provider, and should not be cached at all, set the \c cache property to \c false for the relevant \l Image, \l BorderImage or \l AnimatedImage object. \sa QDeclarativeEngine::addImageProvider() */ /*! \enum QDeclarativeImageProvider::ImageType Defines the type of image supported by this image provider. \value Image The Image Provider provides QImage images. The requestImage() method will be called for all image requests. \value Pixmap The Image Provider provides QPixmap images. The requestPixmap() method will be called for all image requests. */ /*! Creates an image provider that will provide images of the given \a type. */ QDeclarativeImageProvider::QDeclarativeImageProvider(ImageType type) : d(new QDeclarativeImageProviderPrivate) { d->type = type; } /*! Destroys the QDeclarativeImageProvider \note The destructor of your derived class need to be thread safe. */ QDeclarativeImageProvider::~QDeclarativeImageProvider() { delete d; } /*! Returns the image type supported by this provider. */ QDeclarativeImageProvider::ImageType QDeclarativeImageProvider::imageType() const { return d->type; } /*! Implement this method to return the image with \a id. The default implementation returns an empty image. The \a id is the requested image source, with the "image:" scheme and provider identifier removed. For example, if the image \l{Image::}{source} was "image://myprovider/icons/home", the given \a id would be "icons/home". The \a requestedSize corresponds to the \l {Image::sourceSize} requested by an Image element. If \a requestedSize is a valid size, the image returned should be of that size. In all cases, \a size must be set to the original size of the image. This is used to set the \l {Item::}{width} and \l {Item::}{height} of the relevant \l Image if these values have not been set explicitly. \note this method may be called by multiple threads, so ensure the implementation of this method is reentrant. */ QImage QDeclarativeImageProvider::requestImage(const QString &id, QSize *size, const QSize& requestedSize) { Q_UNUSED(id); Q_UNUSED(size); Q_UNUSED(requestedSize); if (d->type == Image) qWarning("ImageProvider supports Image type but has not implemented requestImage()"); return QImage(); } /*! Implement this method to return the pixmap with \a id. The default implementation returns an empty pixmap. The \a id is the requested image source, with the "image:" scheme and provider identifier removed. For example, if the image \l{Image::}{source} was "image://myprovider/icons/home", the given \a id would be "icons/home". The \a requestedSize corresponds to the \l {Image::sourceSize} requested by an Image element. If \a requestedSize is a valid size, the image returned should be of that size. In all cases, \a size must be set to the original size of the image. This is used to set the \l {Item::}{width} and \l {Item::}{height} of the relevant \l Image if these values have not been set explicitly. */ QPixmap QDeclarativeImageProvider::requestPixmap(const QString &id, QSize *size, const QSize& requestedSize) { Q_UNUSED(id); Q_UNUSED(size); Q_UNUSED(requestedSize); if (d->type == Pixmap) qWarning("ImageProvider supports Pixmap type but has not implemented requestPixmap()"); return QPixmap(); } QT_END_NAMESPACE