Which widget to use for a pixel art editor?

Papipone

I am exploring some functionalities of Qt I never used. I am currently developing a pixel art editor but I do not know which widget is the best for 2D drawing. I have considered to create a widget and embed an OpenGL context inside it.

Based on your experiences, what is the best way to draw 2D graphics with Qt?

Thanks for your answers.

njbrown

A regular QWidget should do just fine. Override the paintEvent, create a QPainter instance and start drawing.
QT comes with a few painting examples you can look at.

https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtwidgets-tools-plugandpaint-app-example.html
http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtwidgets-painting-basicdrawing-example.html

Found an open-source qt paint app you can check out too:
https://github.com/kkonopko/Paint

Papipone

Thanks, I already checked the examples. I will go for a QWidget and look for GL solutions if I encounter a problem (I want to be able to apply convolution matrices, paths for shifting colors for instance, ...).

jamesoleg2

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