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Haramoyo
Haramoyo

Reputation: 35

How to draw something with QPainter when the button is pushed

I am working on my project from programming and I need to draw, for example, a circle every time the pushButton is pressed using QPainter. This is the first problem, and the second one here is that I need some information to be sent to the drawing function too, for example, int vector, and being able to draw so many circles, as there are elements in the vector with radii of the elements itself. I have found some code based on signals and slots.
The sender:

public:
    Listener(QObject *p = 0) : QObject(p) {
        QTimer * t = new QTimer(this);
        t->setInterval(200);
        connect(t, SIGNAL(timeout()), this, SLOT(sendData()));
        t->start();
    }
signals:
    void dataAvaiable(int, int);

public slots:
    void sendData() {
        emit dataAvaiable(qrand() % 200, qrand() % 200);
    }

The reciever:

    void receiveData(int x, int y) {
        QPainter painter(this);
        QPen pen(Qt::white, 5);
        painter.setRenderHint(QPainter::HighQualityAntialiasing);
        painter.setPen(pen);
        QPoint point(x, y);
        painter.drawEllipse(x, y, 100, 100);
        data.append(point);
    }

The connection itself in main.cpp

QObject::connect(&l, SIGNAL(dataAvaiable(int,int)), &w, SLOT(receiveData(int,int)));

But the code doesn't suit for my exact task with buttons and doesn't even want to draw anythig, just any circle at all. Howewer, in debugger the code executes properly, and I am relatively new to Qt and C++ so I can't figure out by myself, where the problem is and how to solve my task.
Can someone please do a minimal of code or simply explain to me, where exactly the problem is? Need to solve the problem as soon as possible. Thank you.

Upd: any possible solution with or without QPainter would be good now.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1328

Answers (1)

Haramoyo
Haramoyo

Reputation: 35

Qt Forum users gave me an answer. Quote: From the QPainter class description:

Warning: When the paintdevice is a widget, QPainter can only be used inside a paintEvent() function or in a function called by paintEvent(). You can force calling paintEvent() by invoking update(), so you must connect the onclicked() signal of your button to the update() slot of the widget you're drawing on.

For your second problem, the data can be a member variable. Here's an example:

// mywidget.h
#include <QVector>
#include <QPoint>
// other includes and the constructor...
protected:
    virtual void paintEvent(QPaintEvent *event);

private slots:
    void onButtonClicked();

private:
    QPushButton* mButton;
    QVector<QPoint> mCirclesData;

// mywidget.cpp

MyWidget::MyWidget(QWidget *parent) : QWidget(parent)
{
    mButton = new QPushButton(this);
   // customise your button...
    connect(mButton, &QPushButton::clicked, this, &MyWidget::onButtonClicked); 
}

//...
void MyWidget::onButtonClicked(){
    int x = qrand() % 200, y = x;
    mCirclesData << QPoint(x,y); 
    update(); // force calling paintEvent
}

void MyWidget::paintEvent(QPaintEvent *event)
{
     QPainter painter(this);
     QPen pen(Qt::white, 5);
     painter.setRenderHint(QPainter::HighQualityAntialiasing);
     painter.setPen(pen);     
     painter.drawEllipse(mCirclesData.last().x(), mCirclesData.last().y(), 100, 100);
}
``

Upvotes: 0

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