[SOLVED] Qt sending image between dialog

[Daguerreo]

I'm writing a simple application with 2 dialogs, the first for one original image, which is sent to another dialog and processed. Then the image processed is sent back to the first dialog:

ImageDialog::ImageDialog(QWidget *parent) : QDialog(parent), ui(new Ui::ImageDialog)
   {
            ui->setupUi(this);
            ui->graphicsView->setScene(&mScene);
            mPixmapItem = new QGraphicsPixmapItem();

    connect( this,      SIGNAL( sigCommitImage(QImage) ),
             parent,    SLOT( updateImage(QImage) ) );
}

ImageDialog::~ImageDialog()
{
    delete ui;
    delete mPixmapItem;
}

void ImageDialog::processImage(const QImage &image )
{
        cv::Mat tmp(image.height(),image.width(),CV_8UC4,(uchar*)image.bits(),image.bytesPerLine());
        cv::cvtColor(tmp, tmp, CV_RGBA2GRAY);

    mImage = QImage( (uchar*)tmp.data, tmp.cols, tmp.rows, tmp.step, QImage::Format_Indexed8 );

    mPixmapItem->setPixmap(QPixmap::fromImage(mImage));
    mScene.clear();
    mScene.addPixmap(QPixmap::fromImage(mImage));
    mScene.setSceneRect(0, 0, mImage.width(), mImage.height());
    ui->graphicsView->fitInView(mPixmapItem, Qt::KeepAspectRatio);
}

void ImageDialog::on_buttonBox_accepted()
{
    emit( sigCommitImage( mImage ) );
}

and there's a snippet for the main window

mPixelInfoDialog = new PixelInfoDialog( this );
connect( this,          SIGNAL( sigPixelInfoDialog(QPixmap, QPointF) ),
         mPixelInfoDialog, SLOT( updateClip(QPixmap, QPointF) ) );

mImageDialog = new ImageDialog( this );
connect( this,          SIGNAL( sigImageDialog(QImage) ),
     mImageDialog,  SLOT( processImage(QImage) ) );

void MainWindow::updateImage(const QImage &image)
{
    showImage( image );
}

void MainWindow::showImage(const QImage &image)
{
    mImage = image;
    mPixmapItem->setPixmap(QPixmap::fromImage(image));
    mScene.clear();
    mScene.addPixmap(QPixmap::fromImage(image));
    mScene.setSceneRect(0, 0, image.width(), image.height());
    ui->graphicsView->fitInView(mPixmapItem, Qt::KeepAspectRatio);
}

    void MainWindow::on_action_Open_triggered()
    {
        QString path = QFileDialog::getOpenFileName();

        if( path.isEmpty() )
        {
            return;
        }

        QImage image(path);
        if( image.isNull() )
            return;

        showImage( image );

        /*
         * Update other open dialogs
         */

        if( mImageDialog->isEnabled() )
        {
            emit( sigImageDialog( mImage ) );
        }

    }

The image is properly loaded, sent to ImageDialog and processed, but when I try to send back the image, the result is a bunch of random pixel or the application crash in

mPixmapItem->setPixmap(QPixmap::fromImage(image));

I can't figure what's happening because I'm doing the same operations. Any advice? Thanks in advance

[SGaist]

Hi and welcome to devnet,

One thing I see is that you never add your mPixmapItem to the scene

[Daguerreo]

@SGaist
Thank you for reply, but I don't understand what your point is. The visualization in both dialogs is correct, and I can send the image to the second one and process it

[SGaist]

The point was that you were setting the pixmap on an item that is not even associated to scene. On the other hand, you are adding a new pixmap each time the function is called.

Then I might have misunderstood what you meant with "I try to send back the image"

[Daguerreo]

@SGaist

There is a communication between dialog A and B:
A load an image
On_click a button a signal is emitted, and the image is sent to B
B manipulate the image and show it.

Code work until here,

now I try with another signal to send the manipulate image from dialog B to A, exactly like I did before, but something goes wrong.

About the pixmap I don't understand well (because I'm a noob) where is the problem and what you're trying to focus on

void MainWindow::showImage(const QImage &image)
{
	mImage = image;
	mPixmapItem->setPixmap(QPixmap::fromImage(image));
	mScene.clear();
	mScene.addPixmap(QPixmap::fromImage(image));
	mScene.setSceneRect(0, 0, image.width(), image.height());
	ui->graphicsView->fitInView(mPixmapItem, Qt::KeepAspectRatio);
}

Maybe you could suggest the right way to do it?

[SGaist]

You have mPixmapItem that you seem to not use in your scene, but after that you keep adding new pixmaps on top of each others to the scene, is that really what you want ?

[Daguerreo]

@SGaist

Nope, indeed I don't know how it overlaps the images, and that mScene.clear() was to avoid that. I actually don't understand what is the right procedure :\

[SGaist]

Just add a QGraphicsPixmapItem to the scene and update the pixmap from that item

[Daguerreo]

@SGaist

Thank you, it has more sense now :)