[webkit-qt] QImage vs QPixmap as native image

[Jocelyn Turcotte]

On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 03:58:33PM +0400, Konstantin Tokarev wrote:
> Thank you for reply,
> 
> I was more interested in possible advantages of QImage over QPixmap in QtWebKit (not vice versa). For example, QPixmap does not allow direct manipulations with its pixel buffer which might be used to speed up some operations. I'm just wondering if such trick was an initial motivation for QPixmap -> QImage conversion.
> 
> (I'm not using X11 and I can get hardware blitting for QImage)

QPixmap::toImage and fromImage allow you to do almost everything you could do with a QImage directly. QPixmap stores an implicitely shared copy of the QImage internally.