Save coordinate references on image QML

Polly

Hi all,
i desire to put on an image some coordinate references by mouse clicked. But for me it's important to save these references (one or more) in that image because i need to show other widgets in those references in another app. How i can do?

raven-worx

@Polly
if it's just for your application, why not simply wrap your image into an customclass/struct? Or did i misunderstood something?

struct MyImage
{
    QPoint coordinates;
    QImage image;
}

Polly

Yes, but i would save this image in a file so another app recalls it and this app put in this image some objects . I want to create a simple app for turism when you see an image and some visual reference where you click it and you see another window where you find more informations about that detail.
So i searched a way to put that references in that image.

artwaw

@Polly If you just with to write/paint something over existing image you can just (having coords already in variable) use QPainter::drawText() method to draw text over the image.

raven-worx

@Polly
please give this (completley untested) code a try:

class MyImage : public QObject
{
    Q_OBJECT

public:
    explicit MyImage(QObject *parent = 0);

	friend inline QDataStream &operator<<(QDataStream &ds, const MyImage &obj)
	{
		// write image
		QImageWriter imgWriter( ds.device(), "PNG" );
		if( !img.write(img.m_Image) )
		{
			ds.setStatus( QDataStream::WriteFailed );
			return ds;
		}
		
		// write coordinates
		ds << img.m_Coordinates;
		
		return ds;
	}

	friend inline QDataStream &operator>>(QDataStream &ds, MyImage &obj)
	{
		QImage image;
		QPoint coordinates;
		
		// read image
		QImageReader imgReader( ds.device() );
		if( reader.read(&image) )
			img.m_Image = image;
		else
		{
			ds.setStatus( QDataStream::ReadCorruptData );
			return ds;
		}
		
		// read coordinates
		ds >> coordinates;
		if( ds.status() == QDataStream::Ok )
			img.m_Coordinates = coordinates;
		
		return ds;
	}
	
protected:
	QImage	m_Image;
	QPoint	m_Coordinates;
};

IIRC it's ok to append data to image binaries without corrupting the image itself. Might depend on the used image format though.

then you can read/write your custom class this way:

MyImage img;
QFile file("myimage.png");
if( file.open(QIODevice::ReadOnly) )
{
	QDataStream in(&file);
	in >> img;
}

As i said the code is completely untested and honestly i do not even know if it compiles.