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Yanked from FreeCAD forum posts by wmayer 17 July and 22 August 2014
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http://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=7054
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http://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=7432
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The CxImage is only used for a Windows thumbnailer. The utility
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"ThumbnailProvider" is a DLL which can be registered to Windows as a so called
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shell extension. This utility is able to create a preview image of an FCStd
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project file and CxImage is needed to convert the data into a format that
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Windows expects.
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The format Windows accepts is a BITMAP handle for which Qt could also be used.
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But this requires a dependency of two rather heavy DLLs (QtCore, QtGui) and
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with a statically linked CxImage we don't have this problem.
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