QPainter/QPainterPath and svg groups

acethewd

I am sure this has been discussed before but I can't seem to find anything on it.

I am using QPainter and QPainterPath to generate path information that I output to an svg file. This works fine except when I want to have nested groups. I can't seem to find the correct combination of commands to allow me to nest grouped paths.

Below was generated with SVG-edit and is a simple example of what I am trying do.

@<svg width="640" height="480" >

<g>
<title>Layer 1</title>
<g id="svg_9">
<g id="svg_7">
<g id="svg_3">
<rect id="svg_1" height="63" width="75" y="38" x="39" stroke-width="5" stroke="#000000" fill="#FF0000"/>
<rect id="svg_2" height="74" width="121" y="155" x="62" stroke-width="5" stroke="#000000" fill="#FF0000"/>
</g>
<g id="svg_6">
<ellipse ry="44" rx="44" id="svg_4" cy="77" cx="312" stroke-linecap="null" stroke-linejoin="null" stroke-dasharray="null" stroke-width="5" stroke="#000000" fill="#FF0000"/>
<ellipse ry="31" rx="29" id="svg_5" cy="165" cx="301" stroke-linecap="null" stroke-linejoin="null" stroke-dasharray="null" stroke-width="5" stroke="#000000" fill="#FF0000"/>
</g>
</g>
<circle id="svg_8" r="44.65423" cy="320" cx="199" stroke-linecap="null" stroke-linejoin="null" stroke-dasharray="null" stroke-width="5" stroke="#000000" fill="#FF0000"/>
</g>
</g>
</svg>@

Using the Qt classes, I get something similar to the following where all my grouped paths are at the same level (this isn't exact since I don't have Qt loaded on this system):

@<svg width="640" height="480" >
<g>
<title>Layer 1</title>
<g>
<rect id="svg_1" height="63" width="75" y="38" x="39" stroke-width="5" stroke="#000000" fill="#FF0000"/>
<rect id="svg_2" height="74" width="121" y="155" x="62" stroke-width="5" stroke="#000000" fill="#FF0000"/>
</g>
<g>
<ellipse ry="44" rx="44" id="svg_4" cy="77" cx="312" stroke-linecap="null" stroke-linejoin="null" stroke-dasharray="null" stroke-width="5" stroke="#000000" fill="#FF0000"/>
<ellipse ry="31" rx="29" id="svg_5" cy="165" cx="301" stroke-linecap="null" stroke-linejoin="null" stroke-dasharray="null" stroke-width="5" stroke="#000000" fill="#FF0000"/>
</g>
<g>
<circle id="svg_8" r="44.65423" cy="320" cx="199" stroke-linecap="null" stroke-linejoin="null" stroke-dasharray="null" stroke-width="5" stroke="#000000" fill="#FF0000"/>
</g>
</g>
</svg>@

Any suggestions are appreciated. Thanks.

acethewd

No ideas?

Guess I can drop the use of the QPainter/QPainterPath classes and just manually create the svg file. Bit more work but does give me more control.