I am getting this error "QPainter::setPen: Painter not active"

adnan

@QPainter myPainter(ui->graphicsView);
myPainter.setPen(QPen(QBrush("#535353"), 0.5));

myPainter.setRenderHint(QPainter::Antialiasing);

int h = height();
int w = width();

myPainter.translate(QPoint(w/2, h/2));

for (qreal rot=0; rot < 360.0; rot+=5.0 )
{
    myPainter.drawEllipse(-125, -40, 250, 80);
    myPainter.rotate(5.0);
}@

error:
@QPainter::begin: Widget painting can only begin as a result of a paintEvent
QPainter::setPen: Painter not active
QPainter::setRenderHint: Painter must be active to set rendering hints
QPainter::translate: Painter not active
QPainter::rotate: Painter not active
QPainter::rotate: Painter not active
QPainter::rotate: Painter not active
QPainter::rotate: Painter not active
QPainter::rotate: Painter not active
QPainter::rotate: Painter not active@

dbzhang800

You should subclass QGraphicsView, then put these code to its paintEvent();

dbzhang800

However, I don't know why you want to draw onto QGraphicsView, instead of QGraphicsScene.

gmaro

Message is clear.

If you want to Use QPainter to paint on any QPaintDevice you should reimplement
@virtual void QWidget::paintEvent ( QPaintEvent * event )@
In your case you need to subclass the QGraphicsView and reimplement the function, or subclass this widget, depending what you need.
Inside that function put your code.
you can also use the QPainter::begin function.

To triger painting call the update() or redraw() in place where you need to trigger paining manually.

dbzhang800

[quote author="gmaro" date="1333663206"]
If you want to Use QPainter to paint on any QPaintDevice you should reimplement
[/quote]

Not any, just QWidget and all its subClasses. Other QPaintDevice, such as QImage, QPixmap, etc doesn't have relationship with paintEvent().

gmaro

Yes I know that, I was refering to the current case only, and it's clear it's about the widgets.

Btw. It would be hard to reimplement the QImage or QPixmap's paintEvent function :)

adnan

Thanks for your replies.

Actually I am implementing a crop function. I want to draw a rectangle on an image displayed in qgraphicsview widget. the rectangle should be resizable on its ends using mouse. Once the user finalises the part of image, the program would use copy function of QImage to extract the cropped part.
So, can you plz guide me with creating a resizable rectangle. If I reimplement the painter function of my mainwindow class, the rectangle gets displayed at the beginning. It should appear only when crop is invoked.