To any Qgraphics framework guru... need a solution...
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Hello and excuse for my todays posts
Finally I cannot do a correct solution for a common problem. Need your help.I want to have a QGrapchics framework view & edit capabilities for manage big vectorial worlds. I'm testing my program against a world with 100000 item entities.
Ok. The feed of system is fast and also its initial visualization.
The problem was when I want to take control over the paint event. (in example to know when the draw is done)
If I use a paintevent, I have to recall QgraphicsView::paint(). No problem.The big problem I have is when I want to create a dynamic new element (havin the other 100000 items). In example , a new line. To create this line I do the first click and then, when moving the mouse, as expected, I want to view the line. No problem with this. The problem is that I have a repaint for every item intercepted. In case of drawing a new rectangle the problem grows.
To avoid this, I have tried this trick.
I create a temporal item, not added to the scene. On mouse_move_event I throws an invalidate event for the foreground layer, in which I'm going to draw this temporal item. I expected that exist some 'auto' buffer strategy at itemslayer, but not. I see how I have a paintevent. Ok, to avoid this, I create a pixmap at the begin of my edit process, copying the screen , later at the paintevent, where I know if I'm editing, I make a pixmap copy to later draw the temporal line at drawforeground event. (subclased). I have passing a rect for the whole scene ( I pass full scene rect because if no by any reason, foreground painting is strange) (I know that a right rect, restricted only to the area needed, would be better, but...)The big problem: I have to 'recall' Graphicsview::paint, because if not the drawforeground is not throwed. But doing this means that the QGraphicscene order a repaint for the items...
This is the code for the paintevent of my class, that extends QGrapchisView.
[CODE]void A_Gview2D::paintEvent(QPaintEvent *event) {
if (w_temp_item!=0 )
{
QPainter painter(this->viewport());
painter.drawPixmap(0,0,*pixMap_cached1);
QGraphicsView::paintEvent(event);
// This is the big problem
// If I dont use it, I have not drawforeground , If I use it I have drawforeground but before repaint
// all items....
}
else
{
w_qtutil->time_start();
QGraphicsView::paintEvent(event);
w_qtutil->time_stop();
qDebug()<< w_qtutil->time_spent()<<"";
}
}Mousemove code for a rectangle example:
if (w_click_count==1)
{
w_current_Gitem = new A_GItem(WW::Graph_rectangle, QRect(0,0,0,0), punteroo,0);
w_current_Gitem->w_set_draw_props(1,1,1);
w_current_Gitem->setPos(x,y);
last_point_x=x;last_point_y=y;
w_click_count++;
G_view->w_set_temp_item(w_current_Gitem); // set the temporal item
G_view->w_pixmap_copy(); // copy screen
return;
}
else
{
double center_x=(last_point_x+x) /2;
double center_y=(last_point_y+y) /2;
double ix=W_MATH::my_abs(x-last_point_x)/2;
double iy=W_MATH::my_abs(y-last_point_y)/2;w_current_Gitem->w_set_rect( QRectF(-ix,-iy,ix*2,iy*2)); w_current_Gitem->setPos(center_x,center_y); if (w_mouse_action==5) //click { w_click_count=0; // done. G_scene->addItem(w_current_Gitem); G_view->w_set_temp_item(0); } else { w_click_count++; G_scene->invalidate(QRectF(x1,y1,xx,yy), QGraphicsScene::ForegroundLayer); // x1,y1,xx,yy are the total scene limits. return; }}
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I need your help. Thanks
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Well, not getting into much details here, is it possible that you make an extra, transparent layer on your image that would be another graphics scene over your graphics scene and let the drawing occur there? Then you could just move the element from the transparent scene to your actual scene.