[PyKDE] PyQT and JPEG images

Phil Thompson phil at river-bank.demon.co.uk
Thu Sep 27 20:12:30 BST 2001


Stephen Gates wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm writing an application which needs to load JPEG images. Basically, I
> point a url at an image and read its contents. Then create an image out of
> this and draw it on a widget.
> 
> This works fine for GIFs but not JPEGs under Windows, yet runs fine on Linux.
> 
> Whats the problem? Why doesn't PyQT support JPEGs under Windows?

PyQt doesn't include any specific image support - it's all handled by
Qt. So it depends on how your version of Qt was built.

Phil




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