[Qt-interest] Fast Scaling of Images

[Joshua Grauman]

Hello all,

I'd like to include a simple image viewer in my application to view 
several pngs (around 2000 x 3000 resolution), viewed roughly full screen 
(ie. 1000 x 700 or so). I'd like to user to be able to zoom in/out and 
pan/scroll. I've seen some examples that simply use a QScrollArea with a 
QLabel to display the image. This works fine for me, but I was wondering 
if there might be a better method that would scale the images faster so 
that zoom in/out would be smoother. The examples I've seen simply use 
QLabel::resize() to do the scaling. Is this about as good as I'll get, or 
would there be a noticably faster method (reimplementing QPaintEvent??)? 
Obviously, I could cache several zoom sizes when each image is loaded, I'm 
still thinking if that would be worth it. For now I'm just seeing if there 
is a significantly faster method for doing the actual zooming than via 
QLabel::resize(). Thoughts? Thanks!

Josh