[Development] QT5 and color management

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Mon, 29 Aug 2016, Anders Torger wrote:

> Now I'm working on a QT-based application, and it needs to be able to 
> output high saturation colors to wide gamut displays with correct color 
> management, on both Windows and Mac OS X (Linux is only a bonus in this 
> project). So the question is simply how is this done with QT -- if 
> possible at all.

Sure it's possible. We accidentally broke it because we didn't have test
hardware, but Krita's been able to do that. We use opengl directly,
but Qt5 has a 10 bit/channel QImage format, so that might work too.

> Anyone who knows? Maybe there's an open-source/example application out 
> there that has already solved the problem which we could look at?

Well, krita's been a fully color managed Qt application since 2004.

> 
> We're using QT5.7
> 
> /Anders
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