[Qt-interest] QClipboard with jpeg files, question

[Harri Pasanen]

Hi,

Using Qt 4.7.3
I tried to put a jpeg to QClipboard in the hope that I could just paste it 
from there to email.   Unfortunately it doesn't work for me:


The following snippet works fine and seems to put a png to clipboard (on 
linux):

    QClipboard *clipboard = QApplication::clipboard();
    clipboard->setPixmap(pic);


I can the paste this to KMail for instance.

As pngs are big, I figured I would try turning it to jpeg, the code being:


      QByteArray ba;
      QFile jpgfile(filename);
      jpgfile.open(QIODevice::ReadOnly);
      ba = jpgfile.readAll();
      jpgfile.close();
      QMimeData *md = new QMimeData();
      QString imgtype = "image/jpeg";
      md->setData(imgtype, ba);
      QClipboard *clipboard = QApplication::clipboard();
      clipboard->setMimeData(md);

(I saved the pixmap as jpeg file to check the jpeg is ok)

But that does not seem to work, I still get a png from clipboard....

It's a bit unclear to me at what level this conversion is done, Qt or OS or 
...?


Any hints?

Thanks,

Harri
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