Draw a rectangle around a line

[daljit97]

I am trying to draw a "bounding box" around a line (basically I want a rectangle around a line so that the line cuts the rectangle in half). The line can have any angle and my rectangle always needs to be around it. Kind of like this pic

Here is my attempt in code:

#include <QApplication>
#include <QPainter>

class MyWidget : public QWidget{
public:
    MyWidget(){

    }

protected:
    void paintEvent(QPaintEvent* event) override{
        QPainter painter(this);
        auto l1 = QPointF(100,100);
        auto l2 = QPointF(500, 800);

        auto w = 30; // rectangle width
        QLineF line = QLineF(l1, l2);

        QRectF rect = QRectF(0, 0, line.length(), w); // the rectangle will have the same width as the line's length
        painter.translate(line.p1()); // set the first point of the line as the origin
        painter.rotate(-line.angle()); // rotate the rectangle

        rect.setWidth(line.length());
        rect.setHeight(w);

        painter.setPen(Qt::NoPen);
        painter.setBrush(Qt::yellow);
        painter.drawRect(rect);

        painter.resetTransform();
        painter.setPen(Qt::red);
        painter.drawLine(line); // draw the line
        painter.drawEllipse(l1, 10,10); // draw the origin
    }
};

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    QApplication app(argc, argv);
    MyWidget widget;
    widget.resize(QSize(1000,1000));
    widget.show();
    return app.exec();
}

The result is the following

As you can see the line is not in the middle of the rectangle but on its top edge, how can I solve this?

[fcarney]

@daljit97 said in Draw a rectangle around a line:

QLineF line = QLineF(l1, l2);

You need to offset the origin of your rect:

...
QLineF line = QLineF(l1, l2);
QPointF prect = line.p1();
prect.setX(prect.x()+w/2); // or set Y, not sure which
...
painter.translate(prect); // before drawing rect, keep line translate the same

[daljit97]

@fcarney said in Draw a rectangle around a line:

QPointF prect = line.p1();
prect.setX(prect.x()+w/2); // or set Y, not sure which

I tried this (setting y and x), with setting x I get something close to what I need, but the line is not quite in the middle (but more 1/4 from the top), but with setting y the rectangle doesn't even contain the line.

[fcarney]

What happens if you do rotation first and then translate?

[daljit97]

@fcarney with rotation first and then translate is even worse, the rectangle gets moved perpendicularly to the line in the bottom left direction.

EDIT: there was a mistake in my code where I set the width of the rectangle to w*2 . I corrected that. Now with

        QLineF line = QLineF(l1, l2);
        QPointF prect = line.p1();
        painter.translate(prect);

I get something close to what I want (but not quite):