High-DPI scaling of QQuickItem-derived class - c++

I use QtQuickControls 2 together with QQuickItem-derived class in my app. After I set AA_EnableHighDpiScaling attribute and all QQuickControls 2 components look correctly on my smartphone but object of my custom class is scaled incorrectly. Here is the app without HighDpi scaling with minimum zoom(the way it is meant to work):
And here is the one with scaling with minimum zoom:
It seems that on the second screen the object is scaled too much and I can see square pixels of all textures that I draw with QPixmap or QImage. However, the images that I load from external memory and nodes like QSGGeometryNode look correct. Can I switch off scaling for just one particular QQuickItem? If no, what should I set to render it correctly?
Also, when I try to set opacity on QQuickItem with a lot of QSGOpacityNodes in scene graph node tree I get segmentation fault. What can cause this?

So I solved this problem by dividing the size of QSGTexture by QQuickWindow::effectiveDevicePixelRatio() and also multiplying the size of the image from which texture is created by this ratio.
If you are drawing the text using on QImage you should also multiply your font's size by this ratio. The same thing should be done with geometrical shapes and QPixmap::scaled().

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Create mask to select the black area

I have a black area around my image and I want to create a mask using OpenCV C++ that selects just this black area so that I can paint it later. How can i do that without affecting the image itself?
I tried to convert the image to grayscale and then using threshold to convert it to binary, but it affects my image since the result contains black pixels from inside the image.
Another Question : if i want to crop the image instead of paint it, how can i do it??
Thanks in advance,
I would solve the problem like this:
Inverse-binarize the image with a threshold of 1 (i.e. all pixels with the value 0 are set to 1, all others to 0)
use cv::findContours to find white segments
remove segments that don't touch image borders
use cv::drawContours to draw the remaining segments to a mask.
There is probably a more efficient solution in terms of runtime efficiency, but you should be able to prototype my solution quite quickly.

Scaled and transform Qgraphicspixmapitem

I have a problem while scaling and transforming QGraphicsPixmapItem. I have created graphics editor in which I am using QGraphicsItem of initial size 100,100 and after that I am resizing and rotating it by setTransform() method.
After that I am storing this transform and using these for my another application called player in which I am using those transform and showing images and videos on it, I am using QgraphicsPixmapItem to show images now if I set scaled and setTransform methods to image its clarity gets spoiled.
Is it possible to keep clarity as it is even if I scaled and transform it.The image I am using is of 2560x1440 pixels.
Any help will be appreciated.
The code is :
QGraphicsPixmapItem *pixitem = new QGraphicsPixmapItem;
pixitem->setFlags(QGraphicsItem::ItemIsMovable);
pixitem->setPos(50,50);
QTransform trans;
trans.setMatrix(4.20399,2.9286,0,-3.86601,0.761397,0,33.1015,-134.5,1);
pixitem->setPixmap(QPixmap("abc.jpg").scaled(100,100));
pixitem->setTransform(trans);
pixitem->setShapeMode(QGraphicsPixmapItem::MaskShape);
scene->addItem(pixitem);
You can use setTransformationMode function to set the pixmap item's transformation mode. The default value is Qt::FastTransformation. You should set the transform mode to Qt::SmoothTransformation to enable bilinear filtering which results in a better quality when scaled :
pixitem->setTransformationMode(Qt::SmoothTransformation);

changing textureRect of a CCSprite created by CCRenderTexture

I have a CCSprite which gradually needs to be exhausted linearly from one end, lets say from left to right.For this purpose ,I am trying to change the textureRect property of the sprite so that the part that got exhausted from one end is 'outside' the displaying frame of the sprite.
I did this sort of thing before with a sprite that gets loaded from a spritesheet.And it worked perfectly.But I created this CCSprite using CCRenderTexture and by changing the textureRect property,the entire sprite gets disappeared.
The first image is the original CCSprite which I get from CCRenderTexture.The second image shows what I want to achieve.The black dotted rectangular portion of the Sprite needs to be omitted out.Only the blue dotted portion of the sprite needs to be displayed.Essentially,this blue dotted rectangle is my textureRect.
Is there any way how I could make my sprite reduce from one end.
Also is there any difference between a sprite created normally,and one created using CCRenderTexture.
I have done similar thing like this before using some low-level hack.
There is a work around solution if you use CCProgressTimer, that's very easy and I think it should be enough for your examples.
But you said in comment that you have some special requirements like "exhaust it from both the ends at once" then some low-level hack is needed. My solution from my last object is:
1) Get the texture image's raw data. In cocos2d you can use CCRenderTexture and in cocos2d-x you can use CCImage.
2) CCRenderTexture has a method of - (BOOL) saveToFile: (NSString *) name
format: (tCCImageFormat) format
. You can read its source code then try to save it into an 2D array instead like byte raw[1024][768]. Each element in this array represents one pixel on your picture(the type may not be byte, I'm not sure, nearly forget the details). The format MUST BE PNG since transparency will be needed.
3) Modify raw data directly, set pixel's transparency to 0x0 which you want it to disappear.
4) Re-initialize a CCRenderTexture using picture data you modified.
I can't provide the code directly since is a trade secret and core part of one of my projects. But I can share you my solution. You also need some knowledge about how PNG file works. Read:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Network_Graphics#File_header
Turns out I was making a silly mistake.While supplying values to the textureRect(CGRect),I was actually setting the textureRect.origin.y to the height of the texture which made my textureRect go beyond(above) the texture area.This explains why they were disappearing.

Comparing Sprites?

For a game I'm working on, I'd like to compare two sprites in SFML2, such as with an if() statement. For example, I could have a large 1280x1024 image with one gray pixel among all black pixels. I would then have 2 separate sprites, one is the gray pixel alone, and the other is the map. I would crop only the gray pixel from the map and compare the two, if true, do other things.
Do you see what I'm getting at here? Is this possible? If so, how?
Im with Alex in saying there are smarter ways to check sprites.
Compare the file names not, don't reference a single pixel within an image, because you have to load the entire image into memory to do that atm you are loading 1.3MBytes into memory just to check a single pixel?
Store all of your resources in a Resource Manager and reference them via a UID, if a resource has UID then use that resource.
Number 2 is preferable above all else, but there are many other ways
Edit: As per comments, you wouldn't "crop" out the pixel, you would just load image into memory and use the Image class to get the colour of a pixel at a location. The following would be an example
sf::Image* map = MapSprite->GetTexture()->CopyToImage()
if (map->GetPixel(666,666) == sf::Color::Black)
{
//Funky stuff here
}
NOTE: You mentioned SFML2 so this is from that set of Documentation, may be different for 1.6
Edit2: Its been a while since I've used SMFL so hopefully the code snippet will at least give you direction

How to move background in cocos 2d

Hi i want to develop game like 'Doodle jump'.But i have some problem with the following features-
1.How to move background scene/image.
2.How to detect collision between object.Is it needed a physics engine like box2d or i should just use manual collision.
3.what should be the size of the background image.
4.In fact i have no idea how does background move .So i need a explanation from someone.
Background Movement
A) You could create a TMX Tilemap and then make a very high Tiled-Map.
B) You could create one texture and then cycle the texture coords instead of really moving it.
Detect it manually. Best is detect it via "Point in Boundingbox" or "Rect in Rect".
For more detail visit my blog entry for collision detection with cocos2d : http://www.anima-entertainment.de/?p=262
Size of an Image
Keep in Mind that textures are always at power of 2 in the memory. If you want to create one Background-Image at retina highresolution (960x640 Pixel) in the memory will be a texture of 1024x1024. If possible use smaller Background-Images and stretch them. (like 512x512). But I really would recommend for big scrolling images the TMX Support.
CCTMXTiledMap * tmxNode = [CCTMXTiledMap tiledMapWithGMXFile:#"Level.tmx"];
// lets say you want to move it 50 pixels down in 1 second :
[tmxNode runAction:[CCMoveBy actionWithDuration:1.0 position:ccp(0,-50)];
To create a tilemap : http://www.mapeditor.org/
In the folder of cocos2d, you could get many demos of tilemap.
TileMapTest.h
TileMapTest.m
refer this tutorial this will helpful for you.
http://www.raywenderlich.com/2343/how-to-drag-and-drop-sprites-with-cocos2d
this is used screen movement with pan recognizer