From e300952c0d884a8a406629136c92cfa167db0be5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ian Rees Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2014 07:16:55 +1200 Subject: [PATCH] Updated CxImage README --- src/3rdParty/CxImage/README | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/3rdParty/CxImage/README b/src/3rdParty/CxImage/README index 74855cef17..30dd596057 100644 --- a/src/3rdParty/CxImage/README +++ b/src/3rdParty/CxImage/README @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@ -Yanked from FreeCAD forum post by wmayer 17 July 2014 +Yanked from FreeCAD forum posts by wmayer 17 July and 22 August 2014 http://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=7054 +http://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=7432 The CxImage is only used for a Windows thumbnailer. The utility "ThumbnailProvider" is a DLL which can be registered to Windows as a so called @@ -7,3 +8,6 @@ shell extension. This utility is able to create a preview image of an FCStd project file and CxImage is needed to convert the data into a format that Windows expects. +The format Windows accepts is a BITMAP handle for which Qt could also be used. +But this requires a dependency of two rather heavy DLLs (QtCore, QtGui) and +with a statically linked CxImage we don't have this problem.