I need to draw a circle with QPainter. When I used drawEllipse function like :
void UserClass::Draw(QPainter &painter) {
painter.save();
painter.setBrush( GetColor() );
QPoint centerPosition = GetCenterPosition();
painter.drawEllipse( centerPosition, m_CircleOuterRadius, m_CircleOuterRadius);
painter.setBrush(QColor(0, 0, 0, 0));
painter.drawEllipse( centerPosition, m_CircleInnerRadius, m_CircleInnerRadius);
painter.restore();
}
Unfortunately result is not what I desired. I want to have inner circle not be filled. That is why I put alpha value as zero but ofcourse it didn't work. How can I have a circle which is not until a certain radius with qt ?
You should create a QPainterPath then add the two circles to it via addEllipse(), the outer first, then the inner. This will effectively give you a shape that is the outer circle with the inner circle punched as a hole.
Then you fill the painter path with a green brush, which will result in a hollow ring. Afterwards, if you want the white outlines, you can stroke the path with a white pen as well.
Also note that the painter path can be created only once and stored for reuse instead of creating it anew every time you redraw.
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Now I need to draw some polylines according to their coordinates. These are coordinates of one poltline:
1.15109497070313E+02 2.73440704345703E+01
1.15115196228027E+02 2.73563938140869E+01
1.15112876892090E+02 2.73697128295898E+01
1.15108222961426E+02 2.73687496185303E+01
1.15081001281738E+02 2.73908023834229E+01
1.15078292846680E+02 2.73949108123779E+01
1.15073806762695E+02 2.74090080261230E+01
1.15063293457031E+02 2.74221019744873E+01
1.15059646606445E+02 2.74324569702148E+01
I've drawn these polylines and moved them to the center of window:
QPainter painter(this);
QPainterPath path;
for (auto& arc : layer.getArcs()) {
for (int i = 0; i < arc.pts_draw.size() - 1; i++)
{
QPolygonF polygon = QPolygonF(arc.pts_draw);
path.addPolygon(polygon);
}
}
// move all polylines to the center of window
QPointF offset = rect().center() - path.boundingRect().center();
painter.translate(offset);
painter.drawPath(path);
However, what I got in the window was this:
I think it's caused by the coordinates. All coordinates are very close to each other so the graphics will become too small when drawn in the window. So my problem is how to scale the graphics properly? In other words, how can I know the ratio of scaling?
On the QGraphicsView you can call scale(qreal sx, qreal sy) to scale the QGraphicsScene and all it's QGraphicsItems. If you wish to scale each item individually instead of the entire scene, then take each point in the polygon and use Euclidian geometry scaling to scale your polygon. Or you could use something called QTransform like this post did
I wanted to have an online monitoring system that could tell where the shape is currently, but am getting very weird coordinates of the item, also the dimensions of it get higher by 1 each time I create new one and drag it.
Initial position (map size is 751 by 751, checked by outputting to qDebug(), scene bound to yellow space) :
Dragging it to the left top corner.
As you can see in the beginning it was on (200;200), but after dragging it is on (-201;-196). After deleting it and creating new shape on the same position with the same properties, new shape can't be seen because it is outside of the map, which suggests that edits don't show correct data.
Here is the code of updating the edits:
void CallableGraphicsRectItem::mouseReleaseEvent(QGraphicsSceneMouseEvent* event)
{
QGraphicsRectItem::mouseReleaseEvent(event);
ptr->updateEdits(this);
}
Here is what I managed to cut down into updateEdits():
void MainWindow::updateEdits(QAbstractGraphicsShapeItem* item)
{
//stuff not related to scene
auto posReal = item->scenePos();
auto pos = posReal.toPoint();
//create QString from coordinates
QString coordinate;
coordinate.setNum(pos.x());
ui->leftXEdit->setText(coordinate);
coordinate.setNum(pos.y());
ui->upperYEdit->setText(coordinate);
//get width and height for rect, radius for circle
auto boundingRectReal = item->sceneBoundingRect();
auto boundingRect = boundingRectReal.toRect();
ui->widthEdit->setText(QString::number(boundingRect.width()));
//disables height edit for circles, not really relevant
if (!items[currentShapeIndex].isRect)
{
ui->heightEdit->setDisabled(true);
}
else
{
ui->heightEdit->setDisabled(false);
ui->heightEdit->setText(QString::number(boundingRect.height()));
}
}
Here is how I anchor the QGraphicsScene to the left top corner of the yellow area:
scene->setSceneRect(0, 0, mapSize.width() - 20, mapSize.height() - 20);
ui->graphicsView->setScene(scene);
How can I report the right data to the edits?
You're better off overriding the itemChange method and using the ItemPositionHasChanged notification. You have to set the ItemSendsGeometryChanges flag on the item so that it receives these notifications.
I'm not sure that your item's final position has been set when you're still in the mouseReleaseEvent method. Tracking it in itemChange will ensure that the data is valid, and this kind of thing is what it's for.
Also, note that "pos" is in the item's parent coordinates, and "boundingRect" is in the item's coordinate space. You should use "scenePos" and "sceneBoundingRect" if you want to be sure you're using scene coordinates. If the item doesn't have a parent, then "pos" and "scenePos" will return the same values, but "boundingRect" and "sceneBoundingRect" will generally differ.
I am doing a Qt program where I have rectangles linked with wires (placed by the user with mouse events). Every wire checks if there is a rectangle at the beginning and the end of it. If it is the case, the wire is placed.
I recently wanted to change my rectangles into horizontal lines (better visual), so I wrote:
QRectF myRect(-15, 0, 30, 1);
Instead of a regular rect. The problem is that now it is too hard to trace my wires because the user must link 2 lines with the mouse, which is almost impossible.
I tried to change bounding rect/shape but none of them works:
QRectF Port::boundingRect()
{
return QRectF(-15, 0, 30, 10);
}
QPainterPath Port::shape()
{
QPainterPath path;
path.addRect(-15, 0, 30, 10);
return path;
}
I think the problem is that bounding rect & shape are only used for selecting.
I also tried to use an image (desperate solution), but I can't find a way to add an image/pixmap to my QpainterPath.
I know I can use a line instead of a flat rectangle, but the problem is still the same.
Thanks for helping me :)
Use the QPainterPath for the check rectangle as you have mentioned
Get the End points of the Wire in QPointF( Two Points)
Use bool QPainterPath::contains(const QPointF & point)to check if the wire is within the QPainterPath (Two checks for the start and end point of the wire)
or this in case of a wire image that is dragged and dropped,
Use the QPainterPath for the check rectangle
If wire is an Image get the QRect of the Wire using QPixMap::rect()
Use bool QPainterPath::contains(const QRectF & rectangle) to check if the wire is within the QPainterPath
This is just an experiment I'm doing, but suppose that we have three rectangles that are drawn:
void thisDialog::paintEvent(QPaintEvent *ev)
{
rectangle = new QRect(40, 80, 40, 90);
painter = new QPainter(this);
brush = new QBrush(QColor(QColor::green);
painter->fillRect(...);
painter->drawRect(...);
rectangle2 = new QRect(140, 80, 40, 90);
// and draw
rectangle3 = new QRect(240, 80, 40, 90);
// and draw...
}
And now I want to somehow shuffle the rectangles drawn. My solution is to use std::random_shuffle. The plan is we push all the rectangles into a vector thereof:
vector<QRect*> vecRect;
vecRect.push_back(rectangle);
// push back other rectangles
std::random_shuffle(vecRect.begin(), vecRect.end());
At this point, the order of the rectangles have been shuffled. The only problem is that although they're shuffled I have to somehow reflect that in their positions and also update what's shown on-screen for the changes to be apparent. So, I propose creating a function called shuffle. I want only the x-values to change, so the y-values and the spacings of the rectangles should be left alone.
void shuffle()
{
std::random_shuffle(vecRect.begin(), vecRect.end());
for (auto it : vecRect)
{
// do something to the x-values in rectangle; e.g.
it->setX(/*set something...*/);
}
}
To shuffle the rectangles along the x-axis and maintain the y-axis, and maintain the spacing in between I'd have to get a random number and add the spacing and ensure that it is within the window boundaries say 800x600.
Since I am new to Qt I have to know how Qt handles primitive positions, and so I guess that setX() from the docs would modify the x-position of the rectangle. My other enquiry is: how do we update the positions so they're reflected on what's drawn on-screen? Whenever I update positions it doesn't seem to take effect. I've tried update() but that doesn't seem to work.
Btw, I call the foresaid function through a key press, so if the key 'S' is pressed then the function is called.
TLDR; How can I shuffle x-positions in these rectangles and update their positions rendered?
I'm working on an application that draws handwritten strokes. Strokes are internally stored as vectors of points and they can be transformed into std::vector<Gdiplus::Point>. Points are so close to each other, that simple drawing of each point should result into an image of continual stroke.
I'm using Graphics.DrawEllipse (GDI+) method to draw these points. Here's the code:
// prepare bitmap:
Bitmap *bitmap = new Gdiplus::Bitmap(w, h, PixelFormat32bppRGB);
Graphics graphics(bitmap);
// draw the white background:
SolidBrush myBrush(Color::White);
graphics.FillRectangle(&myBrush, 0, 0, w, h);
Pen blackPen(Color::Black);
blackPen.SetWidth(1.4f);
// draw stroke:
std::vector<Gdiplus::Point> stroke = getStroke();
for (UINT i = 0; i < stroke.size(); ++i)
{
// draw point:
graphics.DrawEllipse(&blackPen, stroke[i].X, stroke[i].Y, 2, 2);
}
At the end I just save this bitmap as a PNG image and sometimes the following problem occurs:
When I saw this "hole" in my stroke, I decided to draw my points again, but this time, by using ellipse with width and height set to 1 by using redPen with width set to 0.1f. So right after the code above I added the following code:
Pen redPen(Color::Red);
redPen.SetWidth(0.1f);
for (UINT i = 0; i < stroke.size(); ++i)
{
// draw point:
graphics.DrawEllipse(&redPen, stroke[i].X, stroke[i].Y, 1, 1);
}
And the new stoke I've got looked like this:
When I use Graphics.DrawRectangle instead of DrawEllipse while drawing this new red stroke, it never happens that this stroke (drawn by drawing rectangles) would have different width or holes in it:
I can't think of any possible reason, why drawing circles would result into this weird behaviour. How come that stroke is always continual and never deformed in any way when I use Graphics.DrawRectangle?
Could anyone explain, what's going on here? Am I missing something?
By the way I'm using Windows XP (e.g. in case it's a known bug). Any help will be appreciated.
I've made the wrong assumption that if I use Graphics.DrawEllipse to draw a circle with radius equal to 2px with pen of width about 2px, it will result in a filled circle with diameter about 4-5 px being drawn.
But I've found out that I actually can't rely on the width of the pen while drawing a circle this way. This method is meant only for drawing of border of this shape, thus for drawing filled ellipse it's much better to use Graphics.FillEllipse.
Another quite important fact to consider is that both of mentioned functions take as parameters coordinates that specify "upper-left corner of the rectangle that specifies the boundaries of the ellipse", so I should subtract half of the radius from both coordinates to make sure the original coordinates specify the middle of this circle.
Here's the new code:
// draw the white background:
SolidBrush whiteBrush(Color::White);
graphics.FillRectangle(&whiteBrush, 0, 0, w, h);
// draw stroke:
Pen blackBrush(Color::Black);
std::vector<Gdiplus::Point> stroke = getStroke();
for (UINT i = 0; i < stroke.size(); ++i)
graphics.FillEllipse(&blackBrush, stroke[i].X - 2, stroke[i].Y - 2, 4, 4);
// draw original points:
Pen redBrush(Color::Red);
std::vector<Gdiplus::Point> origStroke = getOriginalStroke();
for (UINT i = 0; i < origStroke.size(); ++i)
graphics.FillRectangle(&redBrush, origStroke[i].X, origStroke[i].Y, 1, 1);
which yields following result:
So in case someone will face the same problem as I did, the solution is: