[Qt-interest] Limitations of QImage size

[M. Bashir Al-Noimi]

Paul Miller wrote:
> That would use a chunk of memory that is 120MB in size. You're likely 
> going to run into massive fragmentation issues unless you're running a 
> 64 bit OS and building a 64 bit app.
I'm running my apps on 32 bit
> Photoshop is tile-based - so it's actually created a large number of 
> 256x256 (or some other small size) tiles and virtualizing them to 
> disk. You could do this yourself 
You mean I mustn't use QImage!?

> but you'd probably have to build your own image I/O layer.
I'm using Qt for building my GUIs, what the benefit of Qt if I create my 
own image I/O?

By the way, I successfully created huge images by Delphi, but as you 
know Delphi is M$ Windows based so I can't use it in Linux (I'm fan of 
Linux)



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