How convert QString to pixel array

[drewpol]

Hello.
I'm new user of this forum and also new in QT. Is it possible to convert for example one character or string to array where 0 means white field and 1 means black field? For example when I have character "a" saved as QString or char i would like to get following array:

QString str = "a";
//  HOW CONVERT str TO pixel representation array ???
int array[9][6] = {                //"a" char array
      {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0},         //- - - - - -
      {0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0},         //- * * * * -
      {1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1},         //* - - - - *
      {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1},         //- - - - - *
      {0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1},         //- * * * * *
      {1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1},         //* - - - - *
      {1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1},         //* - - - * *
      {0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1},         //- * * * - *
      {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0},         //- - - - - -
};

Is there any way in QT for reach that goal ? I hope I describe my problem as clear ass possible and someone can help me with this?

And very important thing size array must depend on selected font size, so if I choose for example 30 pt font, array shoule be appropriate bigger than 10 pt font.

Thank You very much.
Best regards.

[Chris Hennes]

It sounds to me like what you want to do is use a QPainter to paint your string into a QImage of depth 1 (QImage::Format_Mono). You will then be able to extract the bits into whatever format you want.

[drewpol]

@Chris-Hennes many thanks for Your reply, it has appointed me the direction of further exploration.