[Development] High-dpi Qt best practices

[Olivier Goffart]

On Tuesday 09 October 2012 09:46:37 Sorvig Morten wrote:
> On Oct 9, 2012, at 11:32 AM, Olivier Goffart <olivier at woboq.com>
> 
>  wrote:
> > But QSize is already the size in pixel.
> > Or do you mean that QIcon::pixmap could return a pixmap that is larger
> > than
> > the given QSize, scaled with some magic heuristics.  That is not really
> > intuitive. (and violate the current documentation)
> 
> I'm re-defining it to be the size in points. I think this intuitive, you are
> asking QIcon::pixmap() for pixmap suitable for covering this many units on
> screen - not for a pixmap of a specific size.

What is an "unit on screen"?  Is it not a pixel?
When you have do QImage(QSize),  the image has hight*width pixel, right?
Same for QPixmap?  or has a pixmap actually more pixal than its size? (as 
returned by QPixmap::size/width/height)

I think it is counter intuitive.

Maybe we can introduce QSizePt
Code would look like
QPixmap p = QIcon::pixmap(QSizePt(20,20).toSize(window));
(but then again, i'd say it is bad practice to even hardcode pt size)

I think there should not be that may use of QIcon::pixmap anyway.  It is 
mainly going to be used handled QToolBar and similar.

-- 
Olivier

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