[Kde-imaging] Manipulating image data from within a KIPI plugin

[Renchi Raju]

On Fri, 14 May 2004, [iso-8859-15] Aurélien Gâteau wrote:

> Hello,
>
> One user of Gwenview wanted to implement hot-pixel removing in Gwenview. I
> told him it would be nice to write this as a KIPI plugin, but he would like
> (and I agree with him) to work directly on the image data rather than on an
> image file.
> This made me think we should add a way for the host app to let the plugin
> access the image data. I imagine something like this:
>
> class Interface {
>   QImage& image();
>
>   // Dirty property used by the plugin to let the host app knows it
>   // modified the image data
>   void setImageDirty();
>   bool isImageDirty() const;
> }
>
> The only problem I see is that I'm not sure every app uses QImage to store the
> loaded image. What do you think about this?

catching up on the emails i haven't read. digikam doesn't use qimage for
displaying image in its imageviewer. we use imlib (imlib1 now. imlib2
soon) for this purpose.

renchi