Wrap image in a thread to avoid panics (#254)

src/ui/defines.rs

@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ pub mod ui_colors {
 
 pub mod ui_images {
 
+    use std::thread::JoinHandle;
+
     use eframe::IconData;
     use egui::{ColorImage, ImageData};
 
@@ -43,10 +45,10 @@ pub mod ui_images {
         }
     }
 
-    pub fn load_image_from_path(
+    pub fn load_image_from_path(path: &std::path::Path) -> eyre::Result<egui::ColorImage> {
-        path: &std::path::Path,
+        let path_owned = path.to_owned();
-    ) -> Result<egui::ColorImage, image::ImageError> {
+        let handle: JoinHandle<eyre::Result<egui::ColorImage>> = std::thread::spawn(move || {
-        let image = image::io::Reader::open(path)?
+            let image = image::io::Reader::open(&path_owned)?
                 .with_guessed_format()?
                 .decode()?;
             let size = [image.width() as _, image.height() as _];
@@ -56,6 +58,11 @@ pub mod ui_images {
                 size,
                 pixels.as_slice(),
             ))
+        });
+        match handle.join() {
+            Ok(thread_result) => thread_result,
+            Err(_e) => Err(eyre::format_err!("Failed to load image at {:?} ", path)),
+        }
     }
 
     pub fn load_image_from_memory(image_data: &[u8]) -> Result<ColorImage, image::ImageError> {