TIFF file problems in qt6
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Hi there!
In qt5+, I had no problems opening (non-tiled) regular TIFF files. We have a software that opens all png, jpg and tiff files in a directory - and that works just fine on qt5.
When upgrading to qt6, tiff files that are loaded (img.load("blah.tiff")) will have a reported size of (0,0). No warnings or errors are issued. Using qt6.0.0 desktop (windows MSVC 2019, macOS clang) provided from the maintenance tool downloader.
Any ideas?
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Can you provide a small tiff file to reproduce the issue? Maybe open a bug report and assign it to me.
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Hi there!
In qt5+, I had no problems opening (non-tiled) regular TIFF files. We have a software that opens all png, jpg and tiff files in a directory - and that works just fine on qt5.
When upgrading to qt6, tiff files that are loaded (img.load("blah.tiff")) will have a reported size of (0,0). No warnings or errors are issued. Using qt6.0.0 desktop (windows MSVC 2019, macOS clang) provided from the maintenance tool downloader.
Any ideas?
@leuat Hi, there is optional plugin imageformats (available for download via the Maintenance Tool) - it is provided as source code only and you need to build it in order to use it. Have you done that?
EDIT: re TIFF support
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Can you provide a small tiff file to reproduce the issue? Maybe open a bug report and assign it to me.
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@leuat Hi, there is optional plugin imageformats (available for download via the Maintenance Tool) - it is provided as source code only and you need to build it in order to use it. Have you done that?
EDIT: re TIFF support
@artwaw ah, thanks - that was .. unexpected. I'll see if I can make it work on a windows pc when I'm back at work, I'm currently on Apple M1 and have built qt 6.0.0 from scratch for ARM (same issue is here as well). Some questions then:
a) Will the image formats plugin be available pre-compiled as a plugin download in the future? My software package(s) is (are) deployed to windows/linux/macOS (x86 + arm), which means there will be a hell of a lot of stuff to maintain / compile up. Right now, I'm having enough trouble with ARM stuff + getting Qt6 to work as it is
b) It would be nice if trying to use a non-installed plugin in qt6 would yield an error / warning instead of simply.. doing nothing. This error fell completely through our testing, as we weren't aware of the problem until several users started reporting garbage 128-byte empty tiff files everywhere.
Anyway for now we're considering rolling back to qt5 unless I get the image plugin working. Thanks for the reply!
(and to compensate for the negative vibe : qt is awesome. I wouldn't have been able to do all this stuff without your amazing framework!)
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They will be provided once they're ported to CMake.
Currently there is no reason to use Qt6.0 at all due to such incomplete stuff. -
FYI the problem was resolved after manually compiling up the imageformats package + adding it to the build dir. For future references: please make sure that if you try to load an image file that is currently not supported, then provide some sort of feedback to the user (developer)!
