kio Library API Documentation

ThumbCreator Class Reference

This is the baseclass for "thumbnail-plugins" in KDE. More...

#include <thumbcreator.h>

List of all members.

Public Methods

virtual bool create (const QString &path, int width, int height, QImage &img)=0
 Creates a thumbnail Note that the width and height parameters should not be used for scaling.

virtual Flags flags () const
 The flags of this plugin:
  • None nothing special
  • DrawFrame a frame should be painted around the preview
  • BlendIcon the mimetype icon should be blended over the preview.



Detailed Description

This is the baseclass for "thumbnail-plugins" in KDE.

Using the class KIO::PreviewJob allows you to generate small images (thumbnails) for any kind of file, where a "ThumbCreator" is available. Have a look at kdebase/kioslave/thumbnail/ for existing ThumbCreators.

What you need to do to create and register a ThumbCreator:

Compile your ThumbCreator as a module. The contents of Makefile.am need to look like this:
 INCLUDES = 
 LDFLAGS =  
 kde_module_LTLIBRARIES = yourthumbcreator.la
 yourthumbcreator_la_SOURCES = yourthumbcreator.cpp
 yourthumbcreator_la_LIBADD = 
 yourthumbcreator_la_LDFLAGS =  -module 
 servicedir = 
 service_DATA = yourthumbcreator.desktop
 

You can supply a comma-separated list of mimetypes to the MimeTypes entry, naming all mimetypes your ThumbCreator supports. You can also use simple wildcards, like

Definition at line 84 of file thumbcreator.h.


Member Function Documentation

virtual bool ThumbCreator::create const QString   path,
int    width,
int    height,
QImage   img
[pure virtual]
 

Creates a thumbnail Note that the width and height parameters should not be used for scaling.

Only plugins that create an image "from scratch", like the TextCreator should directly use the specified size. If the resulting preview is larger than width x height, it will be scaled down.

Parameters:
path  the (always local) file path to create a preview for
width  maximum width for the preview
height  maximum height for the preview
img  this image will contain the preview on success
Returns:
true if preview generation succeeded

virtual Flags ThumbCreator::flags   const [inline, virtual]
 

The flags of this plugin:

  • None nothing special
  • DrawFrame a frame should be painted around the preview
  • BlendIcon the mimetype icon should be blended over the preview.

Returns:
flags for this plugin

Definition at line 113 of file thumbcreator.h.


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