I am using QGraphicsTextItem to paint the text on the scene. Text is painted along the path (QGraphicsPathItem), wich is parent of my QGraphicsTextItem - so the text rotation is changed to be along the path element and is sticked to it while zooming the view. But the font size of QGraphicsTextItem is also changing while zooming the view - this is what I am trying to avoid. Of I set QGraphicsItem::ItemIgnoresTransformations flag to the QGraphicsTextItem it stops rotating while it's parent (QGraphicsPathItem) does.
I do understand that I have to re-implement QGraphicsTextItem::paint function, but I am stuck with the coordination system. Here is the code (Label class inherits public QGraphicsTextItem):
void Label::paint( QPainter *painter, const QStyleOptionGraphicsItem *option, QWidget *widget )
{
// Store current position and rotation
QPointF position = pos();
qreal angle = rotation();
// Store current transformation matrix
QTransform transform = painter->worldTransform();
// Reset painter transformation
painter->setTransform( QTransform() );
// Rotate painter to the stored angle
painter->rotate( angle );
// Draw the text
painter->drawText( mapToScene( position ), toPlainText() );
// Restore transformation matrix
painter->setTransform( transform );
}
The position (and rotation) of my text on the screen is unpredictable :(
What am I doing wrong? Thank you very much in advance.
I solved a problem this way - for drawing a line/circle/rectangle/path, which I want to be transformed, I use an appropriate QGraphicsLine/Ellipse/Rect/PathItem. For drawing the text (which I do NOT want to be transformed) I use QGraphicsSimpleTextItem. I set text's flag to ignore transormations and set it's parent to Line/Ellipse/Rect/Path item. The Line/Ellipse/Rect/Path item transforms, but text does not - this is what I wanted. I can also rotate text and set it's position.
Thank you very much for answers.
The following solution worked perfectly for me:
void MyDerivedQGraphicsItem::paint(QPainter *painter, const StyleOptionGraphicsItem *option, QWidget *widget)
{
double scaleValue = scale()/painter->transform().m11();
painter->save();
painter->scale(scaleValue, scaleValue);
painter->drawText(...);
painter->restore();
...
}
We can also multiply the scaleValue by other mesures we want to keep its size constant outside the save/restore environment.
QPointF ref(500, 500);
QPointF vector = scaleValue * QPointF(100, 100);
painter->drawLine(ref+vector, ref-vector);
I had this issue once. Instead of ignoring transformations, you need to scale down the items you don't want to be zoomed in in your zoom-in function.
When you zoom in, if you change the scale by ds for example, scale the items by 1.0 / ds
You might need to change their positions though.
I hope this helps.
Edit: I hope I understood the question right.
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1) How can I wrap text in a QGraphicsTextItem to fit a fixed rectangle, with width and height ?
Right now I am experimenting with creating a text, getting its bounding rectangle, and resizing it to fit the box - but I can't get wrapping.
class TTT: public QGraphicsTextItem {
TTT() {
{
setPlainText("abcd");
qreal x = m_itemSize.width()/boundingRect().width();
qreal y = m_itemSize.height()/boundingRect().height();
scale(x, y);
}
void paint(QPainter* painter, const QStyleOptionGraphicsItem* option, QWidget* widget) {
// experiment with clip regions
// text gets covered by hole in clip
QRegion r0(boundingRect().toRect());
QRegion r1(QRect(5, 5, 10, 10), QRegion::Ellipse);
QRegion r2 = r0.subtracted(r1);
painter->setClipRegion(r2);
painter->setBrush(Qt::yellow);
painter->drawRect(boundingRect());
QGraphicsTextItem::paint(painter, option, widget);
}
}
What makes wrapping happen, how can I trigger it ?
Right now, as I keep typing, the box is automatically expanding.
2) Is it possible to wrap the text in a QGraphicsItem / QGraphicTextItem subclass in a shape that is not a rectangle ?
(Something like in the image above)
I tried to use clipRegion, see code above, but I guess it is not the right way to go, clipping cuts the text but did not wrap.
Maybe it would... If I could figure out how to wrap text in the first place ?
Qt 4.8
You did not specify Qt version but try:
void QGraphicsTextItem::setTextWidth(qreal width)
Sets the preferred width for the item's text. If the actual text is wider than >the specified width then it will be broken into multiple lines.
If width is set to -1 then the text will not be broken into multiple lines >unless it is enforced through an explicit line break or a new paragraph.
The default value is -1.
In answer to 1) I'd opt not to use the QGraphicsTextItem, but draw the text directly in your QGraphicsItem's paint function using the drawText overloaded function, which takes a QTextOption parameter.
Using this, you can set the WrapMode, for example, with a call to
QTextOption::setWrapMode(QTextOption:: WordWrap)
As for 2) with a non-rectangular shape, I don't think Qt will do this for you.
Doing it yourself you can use QFontMetrics, to work out just how much text would fit in each line, depending upon where it lies within its bounding item.
Alternatively, you could adapt the concept of a text-to-path method.
I would like to have certain things drawn on QGraphicsScene, but not be QGraphicsItem (it would interfere with the processing of the QGraphicsItem collection).
Example: a scene bounding rectangle, a grid
I am overriding the drawBackground(QPainter *painter, const QRectF &rect) for that purpose. (I should subclass the scene... )
void MyView::showHideBounds()
{
m_showBackgroundBounds = !m_showBackgroundBounds;
// can't triger an update ???
update(); // neither does anything
viewport()->update();
}
void MyView::drawBackground(QPainter *painter, const QRectF &rect)
{
QPen pen;
if(m_showBackgroundBounds)
pen = QPen(QColor(0, 0, 0), 10, Qt::PenStyle(Qt::SolidLine));
else
pen = QPen(QColor(255, 255, 255), 10, Qt::PenStyle(Qt::SolidLine));
painter->setPen(pen);
painter->drawRect(QRect(QPoint(-scene()->sceneRect().size().toSize().width()/2,
-scene()->sceneRect().size().toSize().height()/2),
scene()->sceneRect().size().toSize()));
}
I would like the option to show/hide either the bounding rectangle or the grid.
The only thing I can think of is paint over them with the color of the background brush ? Is there any other option ?
As I have written it above, it works - except I need user action on items (or a zoom or some other scene changing action) to trigger refresh, or call an update... (the function showHideBounds doesn't - not sure how to make it force a refresh)
I would call the drawBackground from the showHideBounds function - but I don't know how to get the painter
[Also, the drawBackground seems to be drawn automatically... how can I give it the rect argument it needs ? (it seems if I draw the rect it does draw the scene rectangle but I only see the right and bottom edges)]
In order to redraw a particular section of scene, you can call
QGraphicsScene->invalidate(rect_to_redraw, Backgroundlayer)
Note that if drawBackground(*painter, rect) paints over area outside rect, it will not update automatically. In that case invalidate has to be called with appropriate rect parameters.
I have a number of classes that inherit from QGraphicsItem, that get to be arranged in a certain way. For simplicity of calculations, I made the scenes, and items, centered in (0, 0) (with the boundingRect() having +/- coordinates).
QGraphicsTextItem subclass defies me, its pos() is relative to top left point.
I have tried a number of things to shift it so it centers in the text center (for example, the suggested solution here - the code referenced actually cuts my text and only shows the bottom left quarter).
I imagined that the solution should be something simple, like
void TextItem::paint(QPainter* painter, const QStyleOptionGraphicsItem* option, QWidget* widget)
{
painter->translate( -boundingRect().width()/2.0, -boundingRect().height()/2.0 );
QGraphicsTextItem::paint(painter, option, widget );
}
the above "sort of" works - but as I increase the item scale -> increase the font, the displayed item is cut off...
I tried to set the pos() - but the problem is, I still need to track the actual position on the scene, so I cannot just replace it.
A slightly unpleasant side effect - centering the QGraphicsView on the element does not work either.
How can I make my QGraphicsTextItem show its position relative to the center of the text ?
Edit: one of the experiments of changing the boundingRect():
QRectF TextItem::boundingRect() const
{
QRectF rect = QGraphicsTextItem::boundingRect();
rect.translate(QPointF(-rect.width()/2.0, -rect.height()/2.0));
return rect;
}
I had to shift the initial position, as well as the resize, to trigger a new position - I was unable to do it in paint() because, as I thought from the start, any repaint would continuously recalculate the position.
Only the initial position needs to be adjusted - but as the font size (or style...) changes, its bounding rectangle also changes, so the position must be recalculated - based on previous position.
In the constructor,
setPos(- boundingRect().width()/2, - boundingRect().height()/2);
in the function that modifies item (font) size,
void TextItem::setSize(int s)
{
QRectF oldRect = boundingRect();
QFont f;
f.setPointSize(s);
setFont(f);
if(m_scale != s)
{
m_scale = s;
qreal x = pos().x() - boundingRect().width()/2.0 + oldRect.width()/2.0;
qreal y = pos().y() - boundingRect().height()/2.0 + oldRect.height()/2.0;
setPos(QPointF(x, y));
}
}
I am drawing a line using mouse clicks. The line is drawn using paint function as:
painter->drawLine(start_p, end_p);
The bounding rect of line is defined as:
QRectF Line::boundingRect() const
{
// bounding rectangle for line
return QRectF(start_p, end_p).normalized();
}
This shows the line painted. I get the bounding rect for this as shown:
I want to have the bounding rect according to the shape of the item, something like:
How to achieve this?
Edit
While selecting any of the overlapping lines, the one with bounding rect on top is selected(see figure below). Even making use of setZValue won't work here.
I want to implement this by minimizing the bounding rect to the shape of line.
If you have an item that is not shaped like a rectangle, or is a rotated rectangle use QGraphicsItem::shape.
This function should return a QPainterPath. You should be able to create your path by using QPainterPath::addPolygon.
Here is a small example:
QPainterPath Item::shape() const
{
QPainterPath path;
QPolygon polygon;
polygon << QPoint(0, 0);
polygon << QPoint(5, 5);
polygon << QPoint(width, height);
polygon << QPoint(width - 5, height - 5);
path.addPolygon(polygon);
return path;
}
You of course should calculate your points inside the path in a different way, but you get the point. Now when you click on an item, it will only select it if the click happened inside the shape defined by the QPainterPath.
If you ever need to make curvy lines, you can use QPainterPathStroker::createStroke as suggested by cmannett85.
There are two relevant functions in a QGraphicsItem that you should be interested in. The first is boundingRect. This, as you probably realise is a rectangle which encompasses the whole item. Qt uses this for such things as quickly calculating how much of an item is visible and simple item collision.
That's great if you have rectangular items; you can just override boundingRect() in any items you inherit from QGraphicsItem or QGraphicsObject.
If you have a shape that isn't regular and you want to do things such as collision with an item's shape, then theshape() function needs overriding too in your class.
This returns a QPainterPath, so you can do something like this: -
QPainterPath Line::shape()
{
QRectF rect(start_p, end_p).normalized();
// increase the rect beyond the width of the line
rect.adjust(-2, -2, 2, 2);
QPainterPath path;
path.addRect(rect);
return path; // return the item's defined shape
}
Now, you can use a painter to draw the shape() item, instead of the boundingRect() and collision will work as expected.
boundingRect is always used for optimize painting process of of scene. So you have have no room for manipulation here.
BUT if you want change area for mouse interaction there is shape method. By default this method returns QPainterPath rectangle received from boundingRect method.
So just override this method and provide desired shape.
QPainterPath YourGraphicsItem::shape() const {
static const qreal kClickTolerance = 10;
QPointF vec = end_p-start_p;
vec = vec*(kClickTolerance/qSqrt(QPointF::dotProduct(vec, vec)));
QPointF orthogonal(vec.y(), -vec.x());
QPainterPath result(start_p-vec+orthogonal);
result.lineTo(start_p-vec-orthogonal);
result.lineTo(end_p+vec-orthogonal);
result.lineTo(end_p+vec+orthogonal);
result.closeSubpath();
return result;
}
You must draw yourself bounding if you want some thing like this. let Qt have it's QRect for bounding and define your new QRect dependent to the corner of previous QRect, top-left and bottom-right. for example if the top-left corner is (2,2) your new QRect top-left is (1,2) and top-right is (2,1) and ....
As seen in the pictures.
I have QWidget inside a QScrollArea.
QWidget act as a render widget for cell image and some vector based contour data.
User can performe zoom in/out and what simply happens is, it changes the QPainters scale and change the size of QWidget size accordinly.
Now I want to perform the zooming in/out on the point under the mouse. (like zooming action in GIMP).
How to calculate the new positions of the scrollbars according to the zoom level ?
Is it better to implement this using transformations without using a scrollarea?
One solution could be to derive a new class from QScrollArea and reimplementing wheelEvent for example so that zooming is performed with the mouse wheel and at the current mouse cursor position.
This method works by adjusting scroll bar positions accordingly to reflect the new zoom level. This means as long as there is no visible scroll bar, zooming does not take place under mouse cursor position. This is the behavior of most image viewer applications.
void wheelEvent(QWheelEvent* e) {
double OldScale = ... // Get old scale factor
double NewScale = ... // Set new scale, use QWheelEvent...
QPointF ScrollbarPos = QPointF(horizontalScrollBar()->value(), verticalScrollBar()->value());
QPointF DeltaToPos = e->posF() / OldScale - widget()->pos() / OldScale;
QPointF Delta = DeltaToPos * NewScale - DeltaToPos * OldScale;
widget()->resize(/* Resize according to new scale factor */);
horizontalScrollBar()->setValue(ScrollbarPos.x() + Delta.x());
verticalScrollBar()->setValue(ScrollbarPos.y() + Delta.y());
}
Will void QScrollArea::ensureVisible(int x, int y, int xmargin = 50, int ymargin = 50) do what you need?
You need to pick up the wheelEvent() on the QWidget, get the event.pos() and pass it into the QscrollArea.ensureVisible(), right after scaling your QWidget.
def wheelEvent(self, event):
self.setFixedSize(newWidth, newHeight)
self.parent().ensureVisible(event.pos())
That should more or less produce what you want.