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Updated CxImage README
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ianrrees authored and wwmayer committed Aug 22, 2014
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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
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.

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