ICO Image Format
The ICO Image Format provides a QImageIOHandler plugin for reading and writing .ico files.
The ICO image format is a commonly used format on Microsoft Windows for storing icons. With this class you can create .ico files from a QImage as well as creating QImages from an .ico file that can be used in your application. This functionality can only be made available as a plugin.
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Classes: Examples:Tested on:
- Qt 4.3 / Windows XP / MSVC.NET 2003
- Qt 4.3 / Windows Vista / MSVC.NET 2005
- Qt 4.3 / Linux / gcc
- Qt 4.3 / MacOS X 10.4 / gcc
Unsupported platforms:
- Solaris
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Only available for Qt Solutions license holders with a valid Support and Maintenance agreement (authentication required).Changes:
- 2.4: Various build issues fixed.
- 2.3: Support reading and writing icons with alpha-channel (partial transparency).
- 2.2: QImageReader::imageFormat() now returns the correct format string.
- 2.1: Bugfixes.
- 2.0: This is a port to Qt 4 of the latest Qt 3 version (1.1).
- 2.0: Added support for big endian systems.
