kfile plugins

Shane Wright me at shanewright.co.uk
Wed Apr 24 17:03:16 BST 2002


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Hi Carsten,

Thanks for the info :)  Am I understanding right from what you said that the 
image plugins should use QImage for supported formats where possible rather 
than writing file reading codde from scratch?  

Am already starting - bmp and avi first :)

Regards

Shane

On Tuesday 23 April 2002 11:30 pm, Carsten Pfeiffer wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 April 2002 20:23, Shane Wright wrote:
>
> Hiya,
>
> > I've been looking at the kfile plugins - I already have some code kicking
> > around for pulling basic stats out from a few file types and quite fancy
> > building kfile plugins out of them.
>
> great :)
>
> > there are three I have that I havent seen anything about in the lists or
> > in the 3.1 feature plan: avi (resolution, fps, length, + misc), tga
> > (resolution, depth, compression) and bmp (resolution, depth) - is anyone
> > already doing these or shall I get started?
>
> QImageIO (and KImageIO) support many image-formats -- at least resolution
> and depth can be read without the need for a specific plugin for an image
> format.
>
> So we could add one general plugin for all QImage supported formats. As we
> can't handle multiple plugins for one mimetype, we need to enable the
> generic plugin only for those mimetypes where we don't have special
> plugins.
>
> E.g. the tiff, tga, png, gif plugins should provide that information
> themselves, then.
>
> Please go ahead -- looking forward to the results :)
>
> Cheers
> Carsten Pfeiffer

- -- 
Shane
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