QPaintEvent ignore automatic clipping

[Dariusz]

Hey

I'm drawing an element which is animated. During the animation at some point the element may "leave" the bouding rect of widget geometry. How can I disable clipping in paintEvent so that it would draw outside the widget geo ?

Regards
Dariusz

[JonB]

@Dariusz
My guess:

• If you construct your own QPainter call the necessary (larger) setClipRect() and/or setCipRegion().

• If you override QWidget::paintEvent(QPaintEvent *event) substitute your own QPaintEvent with (larger) QRect/QRegion before passing on.

Not sure whether you will have other problems (such as "artefacts" being shown) if you make a widget paint outside its boundingRect().

[SGaist]

Hi,

Do you mean draw on a different widget ? If so, you can't. What you can do is use a larger widget so you have a larger surface to use.