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KDE 4.4 PyKDE API Reference
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<h1>ThumbCreator Class Reference</h1>
<code>from PyKDE4.kio import *</code>
<p>
Subclasses: <a href="../kio/ThumbSequenceCreator.html">ThumbSequenceCreator</a><br />
<h2>Detailed Description</h2>
<p>This is the baseclass for "thumbnail-plugins" in KDE. Using the class
KIO.PreviewJob allows you to generate small images (thumbnails)
for any kind of file, where a "ThumbCreator" is available. Have a look
at kdebase/kioslave/thumbnail/ for existing ThumbCreators.
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What you need to do to create and register a ThumbCreator:
<li> Inherit from this class and reimplement the create() method to </li>
generate a thumbnail for the given file-path.
<li> Provide a factory method in your implementation file to instantiate </li>
your plugin, e.g.:
<pre class="fragment">
extern "C"
{
KDE_EXPORT ThumbCreator *new_creator()
{
return new YourThumbCreator();
}
};
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Compile your ThumbCreator as a module. The contents of CMakeLists.txt
should look something like this, with "filetype" replaced by the type of
file this plugin creates thumbnails for:
<pre class="fragment">
project(filetypethumbcreator)
find_package(KDE4 REQUIRED)
include (KDE4Defaults)
include(MacroOptionalAddSubdirectory)
set(filetypethumbnail_SRCS filetypethumbnail.cpp)
kde4_add_ui_files(filetypethumbnail_SRCS config.ui )
kde4_add_plugin(filetypethumbnail ${filetypethumbnail_SRCS})
target_link_libraries(filetypethumbnail ${KDE4_KIO_LIBS})
install(TARGETS filetypethumbnail DESTINATION ${PLUGIN_INSTALL_DIR})
install(FILES filetypethumbcreator.desktop DESTINATION ${SERVICES_INSTALL_DIR})
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<li> Create a file filetypethumbcreator.desktop with the following contents: </li>
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[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=Service
Name=Name of the type of files your ThumbCreator supports
ServiceTypes=ThumbCreator
MimeType=application/x-somemimetype;
CacheThumbnail=true
X-KDE-Library=yourthumbcreator
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You can supply a comma-separated list of mimetypes to the MimeTypes entry,
naming all mimetypes your ThumbCreator supports. You can also use simple
wildcards, like (where you see [slash], put a /)
<pre class="fragment">
text[slash]* or image[slash]*.
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<p>
If your plugin is rather inexpensive (e.g. like the text preview ThumbCreator),
you can set CacheThumbnail=false to prevent your thumbnails from being cached
on disk.
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The following optional property can also be added to the .desktop file:
<pre class="fragment">
ThumbnailerVersion=N
</pre>
where N is some nonnegative integer. If a cached thumbnail has been created with a
previous version of the thumbnailer, then the cached thumbnail will be discarded and
a new one will be regenerated. Increase (or define) the version number if and only if
old thumbnails need to be regenerated.
If no version number is provided, then the version is assumed to be <0.
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Baseclass for thumbnail-generating plugins.
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<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td colspan="2"><br><h2>Enumerations</h2></td></tr>
<tr><td class="memItemLeft" nowrap align="right" valign="top"><a class="el" href="#Flags">Flags</a> </td><td class="memItemRight" valign="bottom">{ None, DrawFrame, BlendIcon }</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="memItemLeft" nowrap align="right" valign="top">bool </td><td class="memItemRight" valign="bottom"><a class="el" href="#create">create</a> (self, <a href="http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/static/Docs/PyQt4/html/qstring.html">QString</a> path, int width, int height, <a href="http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/static/Docs/PyQt4/html/qimage.html">QImage</a> img)</td></tr>
<tr><td class="memItemLeft" nowrap align="right" valign="top"><a href="../kio/ThumbCreator.html#Flags">ThumbCreator.Flags</a> </td><td class="memItemRight" valign="bottom"><a class="el" href="#flags">flags</a> (self)</td></tr>
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<td class="memname">bool create</td>
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<td class="paramtype"> <em>self</em>, </td>
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<td class="paramtype"><a href="http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/static/Docs/PyQt4/html/qstring.html">QString</a> </td>
<td class="paramname"><em>path</em>, </td>
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<td class="paramtype"><a href="http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/static/Docs/PyQt4/html/qimage.html">QImage</a> </td>
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<div class="memdoc"><dl compact><dt><b>Abstract method:</b></dt><dd>This method is abstract and can be overridden but not called directly.</dd></dl><p>Creates a thumbnail
Note that the width and height parameters should not be used
for scaling. Only plugins that create an image "from scratch",
like the TextCreator should directly use the specified size.
If the resulting preview is larger than width x height, it will be
scaled down.
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</p><dl compact><dt><b>Parameters:</b></dt><dd>
<table border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="0">
<tr><td></td><td valign="top"><em>path</em> </td><td> the (always local) file path to create a preview for
<tr><td></td><td valign="top"><em>width</em> </td><td> maximum width for the preview
<tr><td></td><td valign="top"><em>height</em> </td><td> maximum height for the preview
<tr><td></td><td valign="top"><em>img</em> </td><td> this image will contain the preview on success
</td></tr>
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<p> <dl class="return" compact><dt><b>Returns:</b></dt><dd> true if preview generation succeeded
</dd></dl>
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<td class="memname"><a href="../kio/ThumbCreator.html#Flags">ThumbCreator.Flags</a> flags</td>
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<div class="memdoc"><p>The flags of this plugin:
<li> None nothing special </li>
<li> DrawFrame a frame should be painted around the preview </li>
<li> BlendIcon the mimetype icon should be blended over the preview </li>
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<dl class="return" compact><dt><b>Returns:</b></dt><dd> flags for this plugin
</dd></dl>
</p></div></div><hr><h2>Enumeration Documentation</h2><a class="anchor" name="Flags"></a>
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<div class="memdoc"><p>The flags of this plugin.
<dl class="see" compact><dt><b>See also:</b></dt><dd> flags()
</dd></dl>
</p><dl compact><dt><b>Enumerator: </b></dt><dd>
<table border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="0"><tr><td valign="top"><em>None</em> = 0</td><td><tr><td valign="top"><em>DrawFrame</em> = 1</td><td><tr><td valign="top"><em>BlendIcon</em> = 2</td><td></table>
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