TGA support for KDE

[Malte Starostik]

On Sunday 26 January 2003 14:38, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> On Sunday 26 January 2003 12:55, Dominik Seichter wrote:
> > The code works in a separate application of mine very well, when
> > registered with QImageIO::defineIOHandler( ... ). But it does not work at
> > all when installed as a kimgio plugin, because KDE does not call the TGA
> > plugin when I try to load an TGA file. Maybe my tga.kimgio is wrong or my
> > changes to the makefile were incorrect.
>
> Your .kimgio file should define a Header entry that can be used to identify
> a TGA file. This header entry is a regexp, see
> qimageio.html#defineIOHandler for details. Non-ascii chars should be
> encoded like this:
>
> 	Header=^\x01\x01\x01\x0C\x6A\x50

FWIW, and make sure that if you have to match a 0-byte to use \x01 instead as 
Qt uses this to distinguish it from the string terminator.