I am trying to have a widget live freely inside a large scrollable panel. When I scroll around the QGraphics view, the child widget does not draw properly— its sub-rectangles will blank out, and the borders (which are rounded) are not blended with the canvas. I have:
QApplication qapp(argc, argv);
QGraphicsView view;
QGraphicsScene scene;
// a simple QWidget with a gridlayout and some child objects:
MyQWidget mywidget(NULL);
scene.addWidget(&mywidget);
view.setScene(&scene);
view.setSceneRect(0,0,1280,1280);
view.show();
view.resize(512,512);
qapp.exec();
I get the same bogus rendering if I use a QGraphicsProxyWidget and scene.addItem() instead.
If instead I parent my custom widget to the QGraphicsView, it renders properly, but then the widget does not seem to be part of the QGraphicsScene, because it doesn't scroll around anymore and remains fixed to the parent window.
What's going on?
Edit: Images of the blanking problem, with MyWidget replaced by QPushButton:
Before scrolling:
Scrolling a little down and to the right:
Second edit: I have a Retina display. Could this be related? Is there special setup for Retina with Qt?
You should be getting an error when you try to add a widget to the scene which already has a parent:
QGraphicsProxyWidget::setWidget: cannot embed widget which is
not a toplevel widget, and is not a child of an embedded widget
QGraphicsScene::addWidget() is a wrapper around QGraphicsProxyWidget::setWidget which documentation says:
widget must be a top-level widget whose parent is 0.
To have borders blended you need to set widget to be transparent:
mywidget.setAttribute(Qt::WA_TranslucentBackground, true);
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In Qt5, I have a QDialog window on which I have drawn a circle as follows:
void MyDialog::paintEvent(QPaintEvent *pe)
{
QPainter painter(this);
painter.setRenderHint(QPainter::Antialiasing,true);
QPen pen(Qt::blue,2);
painter.setPen(pen);
QRect r=QRect(0,0,100,100);
painter.drawEllipse(r);
}
If I draw a larger circle, for example by using QRect(0,0,500,500);, the circle being greater than the dialog window is clipped. So I dragged a QScrollArea onto the the dialog window and decide to draw onto that so that scroll bars are automatically added. The QScrollArea can be accessed using ui->scrollArea.
I changed the above code by setting QPainter painter(ui->scrollArea);. However, nothings appears in the QScrollArea. I read that I need to override the paintEvent of QScrollArea. But I don't know how to do this.
Any help of drawing on the QScrollArea?
Drawing on the QScrollArea is not what you want either because the QScrollArea actually has a viewport widget.
Create another class which inherits QWidget. Override the paintEvent() method and to the painting you mention. Then, add the widget to the scroll area in your dialog.
MyDialog::MyDialog()
{
QScrollArea *pScrl = new QScrollArea(this);
pScrl->setWidget(new MyWidget(pScrl));
... // use a layout to put the scroll area in the dialog
}
To really make it useful you will need to resize the MyWidget instance to the size of the circle that you want to draw.
I'm new with Qt and I want to implement a scrollable widget which can grow dynamically, e.g. by adding buttons into it when another button is pressed. I try to implement it using the following layout and code:
scrollArea = new QScrollArea(ui->outerWidget);
scrollArea->setWidget(ui->innerWidget);
layout = new QVBoxLayout(ui->outerWidget);
ui->innerWidget->setLayout(layout);
scrollArea->setVerticalScrollBarPolicy(Qt::ScrollBarAlwaysOn);
scrollArea->setHorizontalScrollBarPolicy(Qt::ScrollBarAlwaysOff);
// code for PushButton to add buttons in innerWidget
void MainWindow::on_pushButton_clicked()
{
QPushButton *button = new QPushButton("button"+QString::number( nameCounter ));
nameCounter ++;
ui->innerWidget->layout()->addWidget(button);
}
This implementation has two problems when I run the program, first the innerWidget appears out of place (I define its position in Qt Creator's Design mode) and second after many widgets are added in the layout the scroll bar is doesn't grow, but instead the widgets are become smaller to fit into the layout:
In another thread it was suggested to set widgetResizable to true:
scrollArea->setWidgetResizable(true);
The scroll bar seems to work now but the new problem is that the innerWidget becomes very small so it is barely visible:
So, how can I achieve a scrollable widget that will respect the size and position of the design?
have no environment to verify but good luck.
to place scrollArea the target position,
Manually call SetGeometry, or
Place a QScrollArea in ui form, (suggested if it's static), or
Place a widget in your target position, and set QScrollArea's parent to it, and add QScrollArea to its layout, and Set QScrollArea to be expanding.
manually create a QWidget innerWidget and assign it to scrollArea via QScrollArea::setWidget(*QWidget), try different size policy to innerWidget, such as "Preferred".
Also be aware of Qt's reference mentioned : void QScrollArea::setWidget ( QWidget * widget )
Sets the scroll area's widget.
....
Note that You must add the layout of widget before you call this function; if you add it later, the widget will not be visible - regardless of when you show() the scroll area. In this case, you can also not show() the widget later.
Above list solutions, below are reasons to the problems you mentioned:
scrollArea->setWidget(ui->innerWidget); Setting a widget to ScrollArea will change the parenting and layouting of ui->innerWidget, so the geometry values written in ui form (in Qt Creater) will no longer take effect, this is the reason of innerWidget out of place. ui->innerWidget is no longer a child of outerWidget, it's geometry will follow its new parent (but not scrollArea, there's some tricky layouting inside QScrollArea". To be clear, innerWidget is not helpful to locate scrollArea in such scenario.
In your first clip of code, widget 'scrollArea' is created with parent outerWidget, again no size policy or layout or geometry is specified, so scrollArea will by default be placed at the left top corner of the parent "outerWidget". To place scrollArea to your target geometry, you can " set geometry manually " or " assign innerWidget as scrollArea's parent and expand scrollArea". Obviously the latter method cannot assign ui->innerWiget to scrollArea->setWidget().
scrollArea->setWidgetResizable(true); makes the scrollArea "shrink" at left top corner of outerWidget. This is because, QScrollArea does not increase along with it's contents, it can scroll to display all of it contents so the required size of QScrollArea can be as small as possible. Once the 'Resizable' property is set to "true", QScrollArea decides to shrink to its minimum necessary size, thus the size to display its scroll bar and scroll buttons....
For some reasons, I need to draw a widget onto one another.
The structure is the following (see the image) :
I have an original QTableWigetItem
On the QTableWigetItem, I create a QWidget at the foreground with the same geometry
This QWidget contains a QBoxLayout
This QBoxLayout contains a QPixmap and a QComboBox
I want to do the following things :
The QWidget is just a "container" for my QBoxLayout and I would like to set him completely "invisible" for the user. If the user click or move at the position of the widget, I want the event of the QTableWigetItem in the background to be trigerred. But the problem is that I want the QPixmap and the QComboBox to be at the foreground, visible and "normal". For me it's just a trick to be able to put children widgets in a QTableWidget of a HeaderView.
How to make the QWidget "completely invisible" (from the event/signals point of view) ?
Thank you very much.
Try QWidget::setWindowOpacity(0)
I have a QLabel that I'm constantly setting it's pixmap (video playback). In my application the user needs to be able to draw (boxes) above the video. How can I layer one of the QPaintDevice classes (QWidget, QPixmap, QImage, etc.) directly above and with the same size as the QLabel for painting. This element will need to have a transparent background so shapes drawn on it will appear over the video.
Add the widget you want to draw shapes on as a child widget of the video label. Add a layout first so the child widget will match the size of the parent widget. The code would be something like this:
QHBoxLayout *layout = new QHBoxLayout(videoWidget);
QLabel *overlayWidget = new QLabel();
overlayWidget->setAlignment(Qt::AlignCenter);
overlayWidget->setText("Overlaid Text");
layout->addWidget(overlayWidget);
You should see the text overlaid on the video and it should remain centered over the video widget if it is resized. For your final code, you would use some widget subclass of your own that allowed you to intercept mouse actions and draw rectangles but that's the basic idea.
I'm a bit new to QT but have to work on existing code. Here's the case:
I have a class extending QDialog. the constructor sets a QGridLayout then adding three other widgets to it. One of the widgets is a QScrollArea containing a QGroupBox. this QGroupBox has a QVBoxLayout and there I'm adding a list of widgets at runtime. The size of the scroll area should grow until a given limit is reached before showing the scrollbars so that they are only used when the dialog would grow too high. I've found that the sizeHint of the outer layout doesn't update when the sizeHint of the scroll area updates. How can I refresh this, or is there a better way to resize the parent dialog?
What about using widgetResizable property of QScrollArea? It should try to resize view to avoid using scorllbars.