[news.eclipse.platform.swt] Re: Displaying Image Thumbnails

["Schnul" <schnul@xxxxxx>]

Hi Dave!

Thanks for the tip. My images are bigger than 200k, they've up to 1MB and
more...

The only drawback I see so far is, that when I use ImageMagick I've to
install another application. When I then want to distribute my stand alone
application, everybody would have to install this application as well (I
assume). Somehow I would like to avoid that. I hoped that SWT provides
something similar to Swing, where the functionality I would need is
supported (if I am correct). But so far I think that ImageMagick does
everything I would need and I will try that out.

Are there any plans on SWT to provide some more image/graphic functionality?
Does anybody know or is there a place where I can look for more information.
I guess I've simply to look at the www.eclipse.org site to find some
information...

Thanks a lot!
Chris


"Dave" <chaotica1974@xxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> If your images are > 200k in size I would not use an ImageDescriptor,
Image
> or ImageData object. You can resize images very quickly with ImageMagick
> though. http://www.imagemagick.org/   They have a JNI interface (I haven't
> used it). I did use their standalone programs once though and they are
very
> fast and efficient. Supported on multiple platforms to.
>
> Thanks
> Dave
>
>
> "Schnul" <schnul@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > Hi there!
> >
> > I hope this is the right place to post this question... I am working on
a
> > standalone application and started using SWT as I think it's a really
> great
> > UI.
> >
> > Now I would like to display a thumbnail, but I don't know whether or not
> > there is a way to do that and if yes, how to do it. My images are quite
> big
> > and would like to avoid that I've to create own thumbnail files. When I
> try
> > to use the ImageDescriptor I already get an Out of Memory error (I tried
> to
> > use the descriptor and then to resize the image).
> >
> > I would really be happy if somebody could let me know if there is a way
to
> > do that. Might be there is no way yet, because SWT was not designed for
> such
> > reasons (or not yet).
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Chris
> >
> >
>
>