# class KPixmap | Off-screen paint device with extended features. More...
Definition | `#include <kpixmap.h>`
Inherits | QPixmap (qt) [public ]
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#### Public Types

- enum ColorMode { Auto, Color, Mono, LowColor, WebColor }
- enum GradientMode { Horizontal, Vertical, Diagonal, CrossDiagonal }

#### Public Methods

- KPixmap ()
- ~KPixmap ()
- KPixmap (const QPixmap& pix)
- bool convertFromImage ( const QImage &img, int conversion_flags )
- bool convertFromImage ( const QImage &img, ColorMode mode = WebColor )
- bool load ( const QString& fileName, const char *format, int conversion_flags )
- bool load ( const QString& fileName, const char *format = 0, ColorMode mode = WebColor )
- bool checkColorTable (const QImage &image)

## Detailed Description

Off-screen paint device with extended features.

KPixmap has two new color modes, WebColor and LowColor, applicable to 8bpp displays.

In WebColor mode all images are dithered to the Netscape palette, even when they have their own color table. WebColor is the default mode for KPixmap so that standard applications can share the Netscape palette across the desktop.

In LowColor mode images are checked to see if their color table matches the KDE icon palette. If the color tables do not match, the images are dithered to a minimal 3x3x3 color cube. LowColor mode can be used to load icons, background images etc. so that components of the desktop which are always present use no more than 40 colors.

enum ColorMode { Auto, Color, Mono, LowColor, WebColor } | ### ColorMode

enum GradientMode { Horizontal, Vertical, Diagonal, CrossDiagonal } | ### GradientMode

KPixmap () | ### KPixmap

Create a null pixmap.

~KPixmap () | ### ~KPixmap

Destroy the pixmap.

KPixmap (const QPixmap& pix) | ### KPixmap

Copy the QPixmap `pix`.

bool convertFromImage ( const QImage &img, int conversion_flags ) | ### convertFromImage

Convert an image and sets this pixmap.

The conversion_flags argument is a bitwise-OR from the following choices. The options marked (default) are the choice if no other choice from the list is included (they are zero):

Color/Mono preference

- WebColor - If the image has depth 1 and contains only black and white pixels then the pixmap becomes monochrome. If the pixmap has a depth of 8 bits per pixel then the Netscape palette is used for the pixmap color table.
- LowColor - If the image has depth 1 and contains only black and white pixels then the pixmap becomes monochrome. If the pixmap has a depth of 8 bits per pixel and the image does not posess a color table that matches the Icon palette a 3x3x3 color cube is used for the pixmap color table.
- AutoColor (default) - If the image has depth 1 and contains only black and white pixels, then the pixmap becomes monochrome.
- ColorOnly - The pixmap is dithered/converted to the native display depth.
- MonoOnly - The pixmap becomes monochrome. If necessary, it is dithered using the chosen dithering algorithm.

Dithering mode preference, for RGB channels

- DiffuseDither (default) - A high quality dither.
- OrderedDither - A faster more ordered dither.
- ThresholdDither - No dithering, closest color is used.

Dithering mode preference, for alpha channel

- DiffuseAlphaDither - A high quality dither.
- OrderedAlphaDither - A faster more ordered dither.
- ThresholdAlphaDither (default) - No dithering.

Color matching versus dithering preference

- PreferDither - Always dither 32-bit images when the image is being converted to 8-bits. This is the default when converting to a pixmap.
- AvoidDither - Only dither 32-bit images if the image has more than 256 colours and it is being converted to 8-bits. This is the default when an image is converted for the purpose of saving to a file.

Passing 0 for `conversion_flags` gives all the default options.

Returns: `true` if successful.

Reimplemented from QPixmap.

bool convertFromImage ( const QImage &img, ColorMode mode = WebColor ) | ### convertFromImage

This is an overloaded member function, provided for convenience. It differs from the above function only in what argument(s) it accepts.

Reimplemented from QPixmap.

bool load ( const QString& fileName, const char *format, int conversion_flags ) | ### load

Loads a pixmap from the file `fileName`.

If format is specified, the loader attempts to read the pixmap using the specified format. If format is not specified (default), the loader reads a few bytes from the header to guess the file format.

See the convertFromImage() documentation for a description of the conversion_flags argument.

The QImageIO documentation lists the supported image formats and explains how to add extra formats.

Returns: `true` if successful, or false if the pixmap could not be loaded.

Reimplemented from QPixmap.

bool load ( const QString& fileName, const char *format = 0, ColorMode mode = WebColor ) | ### load

This is an overloaded member function, provided for convenience. It differs from the above function only in what argument(s) it accepts.

Reimplemented from QPixmap.

bool checkColorTable (const QImage &image) | ### checkColorTable

Returns true if the image posesses a color table that matches the Icon palette or false otherwise.

An image with one color not found in the Icon palette is considered to be a match, since this extra color may be a transparent background.

- Version: $Id: kpixmap.h,v 1.24 2000/03/08 19:46:48 granroth Exp $
- Author: Mark Donohoe (donohoe@kde.org)
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