I already tried several methods on displaying an image on a form, but none of them works how I would like.
I've read many places that the easiest way is to create a label and use that to display the image. I have a label, which size is specified by the layout, but if I load an image into it with a pixmap, the label is resized to the size of the image. If I use img tag as text or css background property, it won't display the whole image. What I would like to do is to load the image and fit into the label, not changing the label's size, but when I resize my window, and by that resizing the label as well, the image should be resized too so it will always fit into it.
If the only method is to get the label's size, and resize the pixmap so it would fit, and handle the resize event (signal), how could I resize the pixmap? I hope I won't need to save the whole thing into a QImage and create a pixmap from it each time.
Also, how can I center it? If it can't fit both the width and the height, I would like the smaller dimension to be centered.
Oh, and I don't want to use sliders to handle overflows.
You can scale the pixmap by keeping its aspect ratio every time it changes: QPixmap p; // load pixmap // get label dimensions int w = label->width(); int h = label->height(); // set a scaled pixmap to a w x h window keeping its aspect ratio label->setPixmap(p. scaled(w,h,Qt::KeepAspectRatio));
Actually there is a very simple solution for this problem. There are two things you should modify:
Set the label's size policy to ignored
QLabel lblImage;
lblImage->setPixmap( QPixmap( "big_image.jpg" ) );
lblImage->setScaledContents( true );
lblImage->setSizePolicy( QSizePolicy::Ignored, QSizePolicy::Ignored );
If the lblImage
is resizing automatically, the image will stretch to the size of the label.
Does QLabel::setScaledContents(bool) help? There may also be some useful information in the image viewer example too.
Keep a copy of your original pixmap
around. Then connect the resized
signal to a slot (or override the resizeEvent()
function) that implements this :
lblImage->setPixmap(pixmap.scaled(lblImage->size(), Qt::KeepAspectRatio, Qt::SmoothTransformation));
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