Maximum map size issue...

Yes, up to version 1.2.1 it is not possible to load maps bigger than 2000x2000 pixel, more or less.

This is due to the maximum heap size set for FreeTrack... I have tried to increase that to 64mb and i was able to load a 3015x2100 pixel jpg.

What puzzles me is that loading that file took some 32mb of memory of my 5800... This is a LOT and almost the double of what is supposedly required to load that image. Why is this? I am already using a QImage, which is supposed to be better than QPixmap for this job...

Update:No, QImage its the best choice... QPixmap will not even load such a 3015x2100px image. But how about converting the image to 8/16bit after loading, to save memory?

Update: that helps... But since Qt will not (damn!) release the memory, i end up eating all the phone memory again soon. The only real solution is to create a class BuffereImage which internally uses QImageReader and some clipping/scaling before loading the image itself. In this way, we could teoretically manage ANY size of images.

With speed issues in mind, of course...