QImage: out of memory, returning null image.

[singhzubin]

Hi has anyone found a solution to: QImage: out of memory, returning null image.


As a little context, this error occurs when I try to load a bunch of photographs from E:\Image\Camera folder that houses all the photographs taken from a users camera in the N8. I am building an application that displays a photogallery in QML.

My Application will not show the photographs housed under this folder, it seems it is clogging up phone memory.

Please advise if there is a solution to fix this.

[danhicksbyron]

The solution is to not use so much memory. It may also help to increase heap size.

Don't load "a bunch" of large images at once. Load them as you need them and let QPixmapCache do its default thing to manage them..

[jkauppin]

Symbian 3 seems to run out of mem very fast. It's not bunch of large images but even 4 x VGA size is too much very often.

[danhicksbyron]

If you are loading several pictures to present as a gallery, you can use QImageReader to load them directly in scaled form, vs loading the full resolution form. This saves considerable storage and CPU cycles.

[kkrish]

I also found this issue. N8 has 12 MP camera and the images of 12MP camera is more than 2MB in size. you can try to reduce the camera resolution and use those picture. In those less resolution picture you will not get this issue. I think it needs a fix from nokia side.

[vladest]

Afaik, this because of VG backend, used by QImage under S^3. dunno is this fixed in 4.7.2 or not

[danhicksbyron]

A 12MP image, when loaded at full resolution, occupies about 24MB.

[serngawy]

dose anyone solve this issue I fill sick of this problem, i gone lose my application

[danhicksbyron]

What issue??

[chriske86]

As danhicksbyron said, you need to use QImageReader.

This snippet will help how:
QImage image;
QImageReader reader(ImagePath);
reader.setScaledSize(QSize(360,640)); //this will be the readed/converted size of the image
reader.read(&image);