How to write a text around a circle using QPainter class?

Question

The question is simple ! I want something like this. Either using QPainter class or using Qt Graphics Framework:

Answer 1

There are several ways to do this using a QPainterPath specified here.

Here is the second example from that page:

#include <QtGui>
#include <cmath>

class Widget : public QWidget
{
public:
    Widget ()
        : QWidget() { }
private:
    void paintEvent ( QPaintEvent *)
    {
        QString hw("hello world");
        int drawWidth = width() / 100;
        QPainter painter(this);
        QPen pen = painter.pen();
        pen.setWidth(drawWidth);
        pen.setColor(Qt::darkGreen);
        painter.setPen(pen);

        QPainterPath path(QPointF(0.0, 0.0));

        QPointF c1(width()*0.2,height()*0.8);
        QPointF c2(width()*0.8,height()*0.2);

        path.cubicTo(c1,c2,QPointF(width(),height()));

        //draw the bezier curve
        painter.drawPath(path);

        //Make the painter ready to draw chars
        QFont font = painter.font();
        font.setPixelSize(drawWidth*2);
        painter.setFont(font);
        pen.setColor(Qt::red);
        painter.setPen(pen);

        qreal percentIncrease = (qreal) 1/(hw.size()+1);
        qreal percent = 0;

        for ( int i = 0; i < hw.size(); i++ ) {
            percent += percentIncrease;

            QPointF point = path.pointAtPercent(percent);
            qreal angle = path.angleAtPercent(percent);   // Clockwise is negative

            painter.save();
            // Move the virtual origin to the point on the curve
            painter.translate(point);
            // Rotate to match the angle of the curve
            // Clockwise is positive so we negate the angle from above
            painter.rotate(-angle);
            // Draw a line width above the origin to move the text above the line
            // and let Qt do the transformations
            painter.drawText(QPoint(0, -pen.width()),QString(hw[i]));
            painter.restore();
        }
    }

};

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
    QApplication app(argc, argv);
    Widget widget;
    widget.show();
    return app.exec();
}