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Qt 5.12
Qt Quick
QML Types
Image QML Type

Image QML Type

Displays an image. More...

Import Statement:	import QtQuick 2.12
Inherits:	Item
Inherited By:	AnimatedImage

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Properties

asynchronous : bool
autoTransform : bool
cache : bool
fillMode : enumeration
horizontalAlignment : enumeration
mipmap : bool
mirror : bool
paintedHeight : real
paintedWidth : real
progress : real
smooth : bool
source : url
sourceSize : QSize
status : enumeration
verticalAlignment : enumeration

Detailed Description

The Image type displays an image.

The source of the image is specified as a URL using the source property. Images can be supplied in any of the standard image formats supported by Qt, including bitmap formats such as PNG and JPEG, and vector graphics formats such as SVG. If you need to display animated images, use AnimatedSprite or AnimatedImage.

If the width and height properties are not specified, the Image automatically uses the size of the loaded image. By default, specifying the width and height of the item causes the image to be scaled to that size. This behavior can be changed by setting the fillMode property, allowing the image to be stretched and tiled instead.

Example Usage

The following example shows the simplest usage of the Image type.

import QtQuick 2.0

Image {
    source: "pics/qtlogo.png"
}

OpenGL Texture Files

When the default OpenGL scene graph backend is in use, images can also be supplied in compressed texture files. The content must be a simple RGB(A) format 2D texture. Supported compression schemes are only limited by the underlying OpenGL driver and GPU. The following container file formats are supported:

PKM (since Qt 5.10)
KTX (since Qt 5.11)

Note: Semi-transparent original images require alpha pre-multiplication prior to texture compression in order to be correctly displayed in Qt Quick. This can be done with the following ImageMagick command line:

convert MYORIGIMAGE \( +clone -alpha Extract \) -channel RGB -compose Multiply -composite MYPMIMAGE

Automatic Detection of File Extension

If the source URL indicates a non-existing local file or resource, the Image element attempts to auto-detect the file extension. If an existing file can be found by appending any of the supported image file extensions to the source URL, then that file will be loaded.

If the OpenGL scene graph backend is in use, the file search the attempts the OpenGL texture file extensions first. If the search is unsuccessful, it attempts to search with the file extensions for the conventional image file types. For example:

// Assuming the "pics" directory contains the following files:
//   dog.jpg
//   cat.png
//   cat.pkm

Image {
    source: "pics/cat.png"     // loads cat.png
}

Image {
    source: "pics/dog"         // loads dog.jpg
}

Image {
    source: "pics/cat"         // normally loads cat.pkm, but if no OpenGL, loads cat.png instead.
}

This functionality facilitates deploying different image asset file types on different target platforms. This can be useful in order to tune application performance and adapt to different graphics hardware.

This functionality was introduced in Qt 5.11.

Performance

By default, locally available images are loaded immediately, and the user interface is blocked until loading is complete. If a large image is to be loaded, it may be preferable to load the image in a low priority thread, by enabling the asynchronous property.

If the image is obtained from a network rather than a local resource, it is automatically loaded asynchronously, and the progress and status properties are updated as appropriate.

Images are cached and shared internally, so if several Image items have the same source, only one copy of the image will be loaded.

Note: Images are often the greatest user of memory in QML user interfaces. It is recommended that images which do not form part of the user interface have their size bounded via the sourceSize property. This is especially important for content that is loaded from external sources or provided by the user.

Property Documentation

asynchronous : bool

Specifies that images on the local filesystem should be loaded asynchronously in a separate thread. The default value is false, causing the user interface thread to block while the image is loaded. Setting asynchronous to true is useful where maintaining a responsive user interface is more desirable than having images immediately visible.

Note that this property is only valid for images read from the local filesystem. Images loaded via a network resource (e.g. HTTP) are always loaded asynchronously.

autoTransform : bool

This property holds whether the image should automatically apply image transformation metadata such as EXIF orientation.

By default, this property is set to false.

This property was introduced in Qt 5.5.

cache : bool

Specifies whether the image should be cached. The default value is true. Setting cache to false is useful when dealing with large images, to make sure that they aren't cached at the expense of small 'ui element' images.

fillMode : enumeration

Set this property to define what happens when the source image has a different size than the item.

Image.Stretch - the image is scaled to fit
Image.PreserveAspectFit - the image is scaled uniformly to fit without cropping
Image.PreserveAspectCrop - the image is scaled uniformly to fill, cropping if necessary
Image.Tile - the image is duplicated horizontally and vertically
Image.TileVertically - the image is stretched horizontally and tiled vertically
Image.TileHorizontally - the image is stretched vertically and tiled horizontally
Image.Pad - the image is not transformed

	Stretch (default) Image { width: 130; height: 100 source: "qtlogo.png" }
	PreserveAspectFit Image { width: 130; height: 100 fillMode: Image.PreserveAspectFit source: "qtlogo.png" }
	PreserveAspectCrop Image { width: 130; height: 100 fillMode: Image.PreserveAspectCrop source: "qtlogo.png" clip: true }
	Tile Image { width: 120; height: 120 fillMode: Image.Tile horizontalAlignment: Image.AlignLeft verticalAlignment: Image.AlignTop source: "qtlogo.png" }
	TileVertically Image { width: 120; height: 120 fillMode: Image.TileVertically verticalAlignment: Image.AlignTop source: "qtlogo.png" }
	TileHorizontally Image { width: 120; height: 120 fillMode: Image.TileHorizontally verticalAlignment: Image.AlignLeft source: "qtlogo.png" }

Note that clip is false by default which means that the item might paint outside its bounding rectangle even if the fillMode is set to PreserveAspectCrop.

horizontalAlignment : enumeration

Sets the horizontal and vertical alignment of the image. By default, the image is center aligned.

The valid values for horizontalAlignment are Image.AlignLeft, Image.AlignRight and Image.AlignHCenter. The valid values for verticalAlignment are Image.AlignTop, Image.AlignBottom and Image.AlignVCenter.

mipmap : bool

This property holds whether the image uses mipmap filtering when scaled or transformed.

Mipmap filtering gives better visual quality when scaling down compared to smooth, but it may come at a performance cost (both when initializing the image and during rendering).

By default, this property is set to false.

This property was introduced in Qt 5.3.

See also smooth.

mirror : bool

This property holds whether the image should be horizontally inverted (effectively displaying a mirrored image).

The default value is false.

paintedHeight : real

These properties hold the size of the image that is actually painted. In most cases it is the same as width and height, but when using an Image.PreserveAspectFit or an Image.PreserveAspectCrop paintedWidth or paintedHeight can be smaller or larger than width and height of the Image item.

paintedWidth : real

progress : real

This property holds the progress of image loading, from 0.0 (nothing loaded) to 1.0 (finished).

See also status.

smooth : bool

This property holds whether the image is smoothly filtered when scaled or transformed. Smooth filtering gives better visual quality, but it may be slower on some hardware. If the image is displayed at its natural size, this property has no visual or performance effect.

By default, this property is set to true.

See also mipmap.

source : url

Image can handle any image format supported by Qt, loaded from any URL scheme supported by Qt.

The URL may be absolute, or relative to the URL of the component.

sourceSize : QSize

This property holds the actual width and height of the loaded image.

Unlike the width and height properties, which scale the painting of the image, this property sets the actual number of pixels stored for the loaded image so that large images do not use more memory than necessary. For example, this ensures the image in memory is no larger than 1024x1024 pixels, regardless of the Image's width and height values:

Rectangle {
    width: ...
    height: ...

    Image {
       anchors.fill: parent
       source: "reallyBigImage.jpg"
       sourceSize.width: 1024
       sourceSize.height: 1024
    }
}

If the image's actual size is larger than the sourceSize, the image is scaled down. If only one dimension of the size is set to greater than 0, the other dimension is set in proportion to preserve the source image's aspect ratio. (The fillMode is independent of this.)

If both the sourceSize.width and sourceSize.height are set the image will be scaled down to fit within the specified size (unless PreserveAspectCrop or PreserveAspectFit are used, then it will be scaled to match the optimal size for cropping/fitting), maintaining the image's aspect ratio. The actual size of the image after scaling is available via Item::implicitWidth and Item::implicitHeight.

If the source is an intrinsically scalable image (eg. SVG), this property determines the size of the loaded image regardless of intrinsic size. Avoid changing this property dynamically; rendering an SVG is slow compared to an image.

If the source is a non-scalable image (eg. JPEG), the loaded image will be no greater than this property specifies. For some formats (currently only JPEG), the whole image will never actually be loaded into memory.

sourceSize can be cleared to the natural size of the image by setting sourceSize to undefined.

Note: Changing this property dynamically causes the image source to be reloaded, potentially even from the network, if it is not in the disk cache.

status : enumeration

This property holds the status of image loading. It can be one of:

Image.Null - no image has been set
Image.Ready - the image has been loaded
Image.Loading - the image is currently being loaded
Image.Error - an error occurred while loading the image

Use this status to provide an update or respond to the status change in some way. For example, you could:

Trigger a state change:

State { name: 'loaded'; when: image.status == Image.Ready }

Implement an onStatusChanged signal handler:

Image {
    id: image
    onStatusChanged: if (image.status == Image.Ready) console.log('Loaded')
}

Bind to the status value:

Text { text: image.status == Image.Ready ? 'Loaded' : 'Not loaded' }

See also progress.

verticalAlignment : enumeration