Image Manipulation
To display an image within a cell, you could just resize the large image of the item from the image store. However, doing so would incur a performance penalty because a large number of bytes would need to be read, filtered, and resized to fit within the cell. A better idea is to create and use a thumbnail of the image instead.
To create a thumbnail of a BNRItem image, you are going to draw a scaled-down version of the full image to an offscreen context and keep a pointer to that new image inside a BNRItem instance. You also need a place to store this thumbnail image so that it can be reloaded when the application launches again.
In Chapter 12, we put the full-sized images in the BNRImageStore so that they can be flushed if ...
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