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krackoder
krackoder

Reputation: 2981

painting inside widget in Qt

I created a very simple GUI that has a push button and a "Graphics View" widget from Display Widgets. On pushing the button I want a line to be drawn across the "Graphics View" widget. I have changed the name of the "Graphics View" widget to gv by right-clicking the widget in design view and then selecting change objectName. I am not able to understand how should the line be drawn. I read various texts on Qt that provided information about QPainter, PaintEvent etc. But I got more confused.

Kindly help me with this. A small sample code shall be really helpful for me as I am new to Qt.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 8790

Answers (3)

clever tiger
clever tiger

Reputation: 33

first you must knew some information about QPainter to have benefit of it.

QPainter provides highly optimized functions to do most of the drawing GUI programs require. It can draw everything from simple graphical primitives (represented by the QPoint, QLine, QRect, QRegion and QPolygon classes) to complex shapes like vector paths .and we use it to draw on paint devices then render it to view,and we have alot of qpaint devices like : QWidget, QImage, QPixmap, QPicture, QPrinter, and QOpenGLPaintDevice you can use any one of them depending on your requirements then create QGraphic scene and add you paint device as qgraphic scene item to be shown in qgraphic view.

here is simple code:

Widget::Widget(QWidget *parent) :
    QWidget(parent),
    ui(new Ui::Widget)
{
    ui->setupUi(this);
    scene=new QGraphicsScene(this); //allocate your scene to your main widget
    view=new QGraphicsView(scene,this);//here is your view
    pixmap=new QPixmap(QSize(700,700));// paint device
    view->resize(700,700);

}

Widget::~Widget()
{
    delete ui;
}

void Widget::paintEvent(QPaintEvent *e)
{
    painter=new QPainter;// create your painter
    painter->begin(pixmap);//add painter to your paint device

    painter->fillRect(0,0,300,300,Qt::red);//draw rect
    painter->setPen(Qt::yellow);
    painter->drawLine(0,0,700,700);//draw line
    painter->end();
    scene->addPixmap(*pixmap);// add your paint device to your scene
    view->show();//then show your view

}

Upvotes: -1

Jim Brissom
Jim Brissom

Reputation: 32969

A QGraphicsView is meant for displaying instances of QGraphicsItem that are managed by a component called QGraphicsScene. In your case, you'd create a QGraphicsLineItem and add it to the scene, or directly create it as an item of the scene by calling the addLine member function of your QGraphicsScene instance.

All drawing will be done by Qt itself, assuming that you did connect your graphics view and scene properly. Be sure to read The Graphics View Framework, which gives you an overview over how these components work.

You will find code examples of how to manage and display a scene using the graphics view framework here: http://doc.trolltech.com/4.6/examples-graphicsview.html

Upvotes: 4

Martin Beckett
Martin Beckett

Reputation: 96167

You can paint into a QPainter

Either override the paintevent and draw there

void MyDisplayWidget::paintEvent(QPaintEvent*)
{
    QPainter p(this);   
    p.setPen(Qt::green);

    p.drawText(10,10,"hello");

}

Or draw into a QImage and display that

QImage image = QImage(size);
QPainter p(&image);
p.drawText(10,10,"hello");
// draw or save QImage

You can even use the same draw function taking a QPainter * to draw either direct to the screen or to an image.

Upvotes: 3

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