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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 | ||
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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. | ||
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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. |