[Android / QML] unwanted image scaling when using Flickable element

bobtheboozer

Hi,

I noticed that if I use following code to show Image inside of Flickable, contents of the image gets scaled and/or filtered somehow depending on the size of the image.

   Flickable {
       id: flickable1
       clip: true
       width: parent.width
       height: parent.height

       contentX: flickable2.width
       contentY: flickable2.height

       contentWidth: image.width
       contentHeight: image.height
       boundsBehavior : Flickable.StopAtBounds
       flickDeceleration : 10000
       property int start_x: 0
       property int start_y: 0
       pixelAligned: true

       Image {
           smooth: false
           id: image
           objectName : "image1"
           cache : false
           fillMode: Image.Pad
           clip:true
           source: "qrc:/test.png"
       }

If size of the image is large enough quality of the image drops. I can see that by comparing onscreen image to original file. I have not figured out exact image size which triggers this, but image with size of 1900x1363 pixels works fine but another image with size 3710x2023 gets manipulated somehow. Small details are lost

I tried to set properties like "clip", "fillMode", "smooth", "sourceSize" and "pixelAliged", but the problem persists.

My Qt version is 5.5.0. Same code on my laptop seems to work without problems. Memory requirements for bitmap size mentioned above should not be too much for device (Samsung Galaxy tab 2)

I would like to have original, unprocesssed image inside flickable element.

Any help would be appreciated,

Bob

p3c0

Hi @bobtheboozer,
Don't clip the Flickable as well as image. Or else it is going to to trim the image.
Try doing the same way as shown in this example.

bobtheboozer

@p3c0,

Thanks for advice. I removed clip, but unfortunately it did not help. Further testing shows that as long as image fits to 2048x2048 size there is no loss in image quality. After some searching, I am guessing that this might be caused by Android texture size limitation.

Dealing with Android's texture size limit

I don't know how Qt handles this internally, but it definitely looks like there is some automatic scaling happening when image is not fitting into certain size.

Maybe there is some workaround for this. Otherwise displaying large images requires more than "image + flickable" approach.

Bob