Make async image loader static to reduce number of process threads when using multiple instances

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/include/AsyncImageLoader.hpp b/include/AsyncImageLoader.hpp
index c1c2e11..5de9215 100644
--- a/include/AsyncImageLoader.hpp
+++ b/include/AsyncImageLoader.hpp
@@ -29,14 +29,18 @@ namespace QuickMedia {
 
     class AsyncImageLoader {
     public:
-        AsyncImageLoader();
-        ~AsyncImageLoader();
+        static AsyncImageLoader& get_instance();
         // Returns false if the image loader is already loading an image. In that case, this function should be called again later.
         // set |resize_target_size| to {0, 0} to disable resizing.
         // |thumbnail_data.loading_state| has to be LoadingState::NOT_LOADED when calling this!
         // Note: this method is not thread-safe
         void load_thumbnail(const std::string &url, bool local, sf::Vector2i resize_target_size, bool use_tor, std::shared_ptr<ThumbnailData> thumbnail_data);
     private:
+        AsyncImageLoader();
+        ~AsyncImageLoader();
+        AsyncImageLoader(AsyncImageLoader &other) = delete;
+        AsyncImageLoader& operator=(AsyncImageLoader &other) = delete;
+
         struct ThumbnailLoadData {
             Path path;
             Path thumbnail_path;