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[Joey Chan <qqworini@xxxxxxxxx>]

So .. can I use the thumbnailer to cache images locally from different
Internet address ?   e.g.    "image://thumbnailer/$
http://imgur/23fw49jj1oda9/9i8u8y7t.jpg";
That I don't need to implement an in-app cache myself.

2014-10-10 11:04 GMT+08:00 James Henstridge <james.henstridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
:

> On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 10:42 AM, Joey Chan <qqworini@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hello Gentlemen,
> >
> > Any docs to show the usage of "import Ubuntu.thumbnailer 0.1" ? I wonder
> if
> > it is useful for Shorts-app.
>
> Ubuntu.Thumbnailer is a QML module that wraps the libthumbnailer
> library.  It doesn't provide any QML components directly, but instead
> exposes a number of image providers that can be used with e.g. the
> standard QML Image component.
>
> For example, if you set "image://thumbnailer/$uri" as the source for
> your image component, you can have it display the a thumbnail of a
> video file, or the embedded cover art for a music file.  And if you
> use "image://albumart/artist=xxx&album=yyy", it will display album
> cover art work downloaded from a network service and cached locally.
> Both of these are used by some of the default scopes on the dash and a
> few of the preinstalled applications.
>
> James.
>