Re: [sqlite] Handling Pictures

2013-11-06 Thread Igor Tandetnik
For file-to-database path, don't use QPixmap or QImage or anything like that. Use QFile::readAll to read bytes from file into a QByteArray, then QByteArray::data() and sqlite3_bind_blob (or equivalent in your SQLite wrapper, which I'm not familiar with) to bind the data to a SQL statement. Whe

Re: [sqlite] Handling Pictures

2013-11-06 Thread Petite Abeille
On Nov 6, 2013, at 8:00 PM, Richard Hipp wrote: > See http://www.sqlite.org/whentouse.html#appfileformat for further thoughts > on this. SQLite is commonly used as an application file format. In such > cases, it is entirely appropriate to store content files directly in the > database, rather

Re: [sqlite] Handling Pictures

2013-11-06 Thread Richard Hipp
On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Petite Abeille wrote: > > On Nov 6, 2013, at 7:42 PM, Ulrich Goebel wrote: > > > Every hint is welcome! > > Don't store your files in the database. Store them on the file system, as > the Almighty intended. Much simpler and flexible altogether. > > Perhaps of inte

Re: [sqlite] Handling Pictures

2013-11-06 Thread Petite Abeille
On Nov 6, 2013, at 7:42 PM, Ulrich Goebel wrote: > Every hint is welcome! Don't store your files in the database. Store them on the file system, as the Almighty intended. Much simpler and flexible altogether. Perhaps of interest: http://www.sqlite.org/intern-v-extern-blob.html

[sqlite] Handling Pictures

2013-11-06 Thread Ulrich Goebel
Hallo again, now I have to handle pictures. In a SQLite database I would like to save pictures from people. So I made a table CREATE table pictures (id integer, pic blob) With PyQT4 I build a formular where I want to show the pictures. (In fact the formular shows data from a person, and even