I have started learning Qt recently.
I did not get quite clear how can I paint using QPainter
class. Let`s say I want just to place a few points in the window:
class PointDrawer: public QWidget {
Q_OBJECT
private:
QPainter p;
public:
PointDrawer(QWidget* obj=0): QWidget(obj), p(this) {}
virtual void paintEvent(QPaintEvent*) {
p.setPen(QPen(Qt::black, 3));
int n = 8;
while(...) {
qreal fAngle = 2 * 3.14 * i / n;
qreal x = 50 + cos(fAngle) * 40;
qreal y = 50 + sin(fAngle) * 40;
p.drawPoint(QPointF(x, y));
i++;
}
}
}
int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
QApplication app(argc, argv);
PointDrawer drawer;
drawer.resize(200, 200);
drawer.show();
return app.exec();
}
And after that, I got nothing!
Can you please tell me where I am wrong?
I think the problem is your QPainter
initialization.
You could just create the QPainter
like in hydroes' answer, it would look like this then:
class PointDrawer: public QWidget {
Q_OBJECT
public:
PointDrawer(QWidget* obj=0): QWidget(obj) {}
virtual void paintEvent(QPaintEvent*) {
QPainter p(this);
p.setPen(QPen(Qt::black, 3));
int n = 8;
while(...) {
qreal fAngle = 2 * 3.14 * i / n;
qreal x = 50 + cos(fAngle) * 40;
qreal y = 50 + sin(fAngle) * 40;
p.drawPoint(QPointF(x, y));
i++;
}
}
}
It could also use something like this, but I don't really recommend it (I just prefer the other solution):
class PointDrawer: public QWidget {
Q_OBJECT
private:
QPainter p;
public:
PointDrawer(QWidget* obj=0): QWidget(obj) {}
virtual void paintEvent(QPaintEvent*) {
p.begin(this);
p.setPen(QPen(Qt::black, 3));
int n = 8;
while(...) {
qreal fAngle = 2 * 3.14 * i / n;
qreal x = 50 + cos(fAngle) * 40;
qreal y = 50 + sin(fAngle) * 40;
p.drawPoint(QPointF(x, y));
i++;
}
p.end();
}
}
The QPainter::begin(this)
and QPainter::end()
calls are essential in the second example. In the first example, you can think of QPainter::begin(this)
being called in the constructor and QPainter::end()
in the destructor
For the reason, I'm guessing:
As QPaintDevice
s are usually double buffered in QT4, QPainter::end()
might be where the image is transferred to the graphic memory.
void SimpleExampleWidget::paintEvent(QPaintEvent *)
{
QPainter painter(this);
painter.setPen(Qt::blue);
painter.setFont(QFont("Arial", 30));
painter.drawText(rect(), Qt::AlignCenter, "Qt");
}
http://doc.qt.digia.com/4.4/qpainter.html
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