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<p>The QPixmapCache class provides an application-wide cache for pixmaps. <a href="#details">More...</a></p>
<pre> #include <QPixmapCache></pre><ul>
<li><a href="qpixmapcache-members.html">List of all members, including inherited members</a></li>
<li><a href="qpixmapcache-obsolete.html">Obsolete members</a></li>
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<h3>Static Public Members</h3>
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<li><div class="fn"/>int <b><a href="qpixmapcache.html#cacheLimit">cacheLimit</a></b> ()</li>
<li><div class="fn"/>void <b><a href="qpixmapcache.html#clear">clear</a></b> ()</li>
<li><div class="fn"/>bool <b><a href="qpixmapcache.html#find">find</a></b> ( const QString & <i>key</i>, QPixmap & <i>pm</i> )</li>
<li><div class="fn"/>bool <b><a href="qpixmapcache.html#insert">insert</a></b> ( const QString & <i>key</i>, const QPixmap & <i>pm</i> )</li>
<li><div class="fn"/>void <b><a href="qpixmapcache.html#remove">remove</a></b> ( const QString & <i>key</i> )</li>
<li><div class="fn"/>void <b><a href="qpixmapcache.html#setCacheLimit">setCacheLimit</a></b> ( int <i>n</i> )</li>
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<h2>Detailed Description</h2>
<p>The QPixmapCache class provides an application-wide cache for pixmaps.</p>
<p>This class is a tool for optimized drawing with <a href="qpixmap.html">QPixmap</a>. You can use it to store temporary pixmaps that are expensive to generate without using more storage space than <a href="qpixmapcache.html#cacheLimit">cacheLimit</a>(). Use <a href="qpixmapcache.html#insert">insert</a>() to insert pixmaps, <a href="qpixmapcache.html#find">find</a>() to find them, and <a href="qpixmapcache.html#clear">clear</a>() to empty the cache.</p>
<p>QPixmapCache contains no member data, only static functions to access the global pixmap cache. It creates an internal <a href="qcache.html">QCache</a> object for caching the pixmaps.</p>
<p>The cache associates a pixmap with a string (key). If two pixmaps are inserted into the cache using equal keys, then the last pixmap will hide the first pixmap. The <a href="qhash.html">QHash</a> and <a href="qcache.html">QCache</a> classes do exactly the same.</p>
<p>The cache becomes full when the total size of all pixmaps in the cache exceeds <a href="qpixmapcache.html#cacheLimit">cacheLimit</a>(). The initial cache limit is 1024 KB (1 MB); it is changed with <a href="qpixmapcache.html#setCacheLimit">setCacheLimit</a>(). A pixmap takes roughly (<i>width</i> * <i>height</i> * <i>depth</i>)/8 bytes of memory.</p>
<p>The <i>Qt Quarterly</i> article <a href="http://doc.trolltech.com/qq/qq12-qpixmapcache.html">Optimizing with QPixmapCache</a> explains how to use QPixmapCache to speed up applications by caching the results of painting.</p>
<p>See also <a href="qcache.html">QCache</a> and <a href="qpixmap.html">QPixmap</a>.</p>
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<h2>Member Function Documentation</h2>
<h3 class="fn"><a name="cacheLimit"></a>int QPixmapCache::cacheLimit () <tt> [static]</tt></h3>
<p>Returns the cache limit (in kilobytes).</p>
<p>The default setting is 1024 kilobytes.</p>
<p>See also <a href="qpixmapcache.html#setCacheLimit">setCacheLimit</a>().</p>
<h3 class="fn"><a name="clear"></a>void QPixmapCache::clear () <tt> [static]</tt></h3>
<p>Removes all pixmaps from the cache.</p>
<h3 class="fn"><a name="find"></a>bool QPixmapCache::find ( const <a href="qstring.html">QString</a> & <i>key</i>, <a href="qpixmap.html">QPixmap</a> & <i>pm</i> ) <tt> [static]</tt></h3>
<p>Looks for a cached pixmap associated with the <i>key</i> in the cache. If the pixmap is found, the function sets <i>pm</i> to that pixmap and returns true; otherwise it leaves <i>pm</i> alone and returns false.</p>
<p>Example:</p>
<pre> QPixmap pm;
if (!QPixmapCache::find("my_big_image", pm)) {
pm.load("bigimage.png");
QPixmapCache::insert("my_big_image", pm);
}
painter->drawPixmap(0, 0, pm);</pre>
<h3 class="fn"><a name="insert"></a>bool QPixmapCache::insert ( const <a href="qstring.html">QString</a> & <i>key</i>, const <a href="qpixmap.html">QPixmap</a> & <i>pm</i> ) <tt> [static]</tt></h3>
<p>Inserts a copy of the pixmap <i>pm</i> associated with the <i>key</i> into the cache.</p>
<p>All pixmaps inserted by the Qt library have a key starting with "$qt", so your own pixmap keys should never begin "$qt".</p>
<p>When a pixmap is inserted and the cache is about to exceed its limit, it removes pixmaps until there is enough room for the pixmap to be inserted.</p>
<p>The oldest pixmaps (least recently accessed in the cache) are deleted when more space is needed.</p>
<p>The function returns true if the object was inserted into the cache; otherwise it returns false.</p>
<p>See also <a href="qpixmapcache.html#setCacheLimit">setCacheLimit</a>().</p>
<h3 class="fn"><a name="remove"></a>void QPixmapCache::remove ( const <a href="qstring.html">QString</a> & <i>key</i> ) <tt> [static]</tt></h3>
<p>Removes the pixmap associated with <i>key</i> from the cache.</p>
<h3 class="fn"><a name="setCacheLimit"></a>void QPixmapCache::setCacheLimit ( int <i>n</i> ) <tt> [static]</tt></h3>
<p>Sets the cache limit to <i>n</i> kilobytes.</p>
<p>The default setting is 1024 kilobytes.</p>
<p>See also <a href="qpixmapcache.html#cacheLimit">cacheLimit</a>().</p>
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