QImage Class

  • Header: QImage

  • CMake:

    find_package(Qt6 REQUIRED COMPONENTS Gui)

    target_link_libraries(mytarget PRIVATE Qt6::Gui)

  • qmake: QT += gui

  • Inherits: QPaintDevice

  • Group: QImage is part of Painting Classes, shared

Detailed Description

Qt provides four classes for handling image data: QImage, QPixmap, QBitmap and QPicture. QImage is designed and optimized for I/O, and for direct pixel access and manipulation, while QPixmap is designed and optimized for showing images on screen. QBitmap is only a convenience class that inherits QPixmap, ensuring a depth of 1. Finally, the QPicture class is a paint device that records and replays QPainter commands.

Because QImage is a