Get QPixmap from Image Item in C++

[Gianluca]

Dear all,
I want to pass an Image item to a C++ method and from that retrieve as QPixmap the image displayed. Is it possibile ?
In pseudo-code, what I want to achieve is:
in QML:
@
Image {
id: image
// can be remote url, qrc or local file
source: "path/to/image"
}

MouseArea {
onClicked: CppObject.postImage( image )
}
@
and in the C++ implementation of postImage:
@
void CppObject::postImage( QQuickItem* image ) {
QPixmap pix = image->howToRetrieveTheImageAsQPixmap();
}
@

Thanks,
Gianluca.

[JKSH]

Hi,

See the "QPixmap documentation":http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qpixmap.html#fromImage

[Gianluca]

[quote author="JKSH" date="1418255486"]Hi,

See the "QPixmap documentation":http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qpixmap.html#fromImage[/quote]

I read the documentation ... but the method you point it's not useful for me. I need to get a QPixmap from a Image (not QImage). Image item is a Qt Quick 2 component. It's different from QImage.

[JKSH]

[quote author="Gianluca" date="1418282896"]I read the documentation ... but the method you point it's not useful for me. I need to get a QPixmap from a Image (not QImage). Image item is a Qt Quick 2 component. It's different from QImage.[/quote]My apologies! I misread your post and thought you wanted to use QImage.

I don't know of a way to extract the data from a QML Image object. The closest I can think of is QQuickView::grabWindow(), but that grabs everything visible, not just the image.

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[utcenter]

grabWindow() is quite clumsy, and while at this time there is no way to get a QPixmap from a QML Image, the other way around is possible - you can have a QPixmap inside a QML component which you can modify in C++ and display in QML using a custom image provider.

Check this out: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27429371/qml-and-c-image-interoperability

[Gianluca]

[quote author="utcenter" date="1418322791"]
Check this out: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27429371/qml-and-c-image-interoperability[/quote]

I cannot use that method because I'm writing a library, so the functionality that I need will be used by the users of the library not by myself.

I think that for now the only possible solution is to pass the value of source property instead of passing the whole Item.

But in this case the question change in:
How can I create a QPixmap from "image://" and "qrc://" url schemas from C++ ?

[utcenter]

bq. I cannot use that method because I’m writing a library, so the functionality that I need will be used by the users of the library not by myself.

You probably can put it into the library, i.e. the plugin, with:

@void QQmlExtensionPlugin::​initializeEngine(QQmlEngine * engine, const char * uri)@

Just register the image provider with the engine in that function.

There is nothing preventing you from creating a pixmap from a file in qrc, but it would be quite limiting only being able to use images packed in the resource file.