Cascades Development

[Dredvard]

I'm having issues with Imageviews not rendering .jpgs from a shared directory.  Filepicker sample renders the files fine.  Here's the code:

In qml:

function setimages(){

imageviewid.imageSource =_slideshow.getImageSource();

}

in C++

void Slideshow::getImageSource(){

QString source;

//    source="/accounts/1000/shared/photos/outimage.png";     // this renders fine

source="/accounts/1000/shared/photos/IMG_00000011.jpg";   // renders image black

// source = "images/IMG_00000003.jpg"  // works fine

    QDir app;
    QString abspath = app.relativeFilePath(source);
    qDebug() << abspath;
    return QVariant::fromValue(source);

}

Thoughts?

[Dredvard]

It appears the difference between the files is the size.  One is >900,000,KB while the other is only 60,000KB.  So is there a limit on the sizes that Cascades will load into an imageview?  How do you get around this?

[smcveigh]

ImageView is limited to images with a resolution of 2048x2048 or less.

There are a few threads related to this.

Cheers,

Sean

[Dredvard]

Thanks.  I had actually done a bunch of searches, but I never located anything referencing this.

To get around this issue, I'm trying to implement an imagescaler in a seprate thread, however bb:ImageData does not seem to be thread safe ( I get the error message ApplicationPrivate::context: ERROR called from non-UI thread QThread)  .  What is the correct method to scale in a seperate thread?

I've tried to implement the code snippet docoumented 

static bb::ImageData fromQImage(const QImage &qImage) {
	bb::ImageData imageData(bb::PixelFormat::RGBA_Premultiplied, qImage.width(),
			qImage.height());

	unsigned char *dstLine = imageData.pixels();
	for (int y = 0; y < imageData.height(); y++) {
		unsigned char * dst = dstLine;
		for (int x = 0; x < imageData.width(); x++) {
			QRgb srcPixel = qImage.pixel(x, y);
			*dst++ = qRed(srcPixel);
			*dst++ = qGreen(srcPixel);
			*dst++ = qBlue(srcPixel);
			*dst++ = qAlpha(srcPixel);
		}
		dstLine += imageData.bytesPerLine();
	}

	return imageData;
}

[smcveigh]

If I had to guess, I'd wager that the problem is that you are instantiating bb::ImageData imageData() on the stack in this function and then returning it.

Maybe this thread should take ImageData& or ImageData* as an argument, and supply the instance from your UI thread.