It helps if you want to use the scaled image. If your goal is to use CPU time then you can of course ignore the result.
However, from your general description it sounds like you want the scaled image, not the original.
Loading is always done through QImage, so loading into QPixmap loads into a QImage and then converts it to a QPixmap.
What?
Qimage::scaled() takes the same arguments.
Cheers,
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