use a picture as a background in a QGraphicsView

[di_zou]

I have a QGraphicsView, and I would like to use a .tif image as a background for it. I am assuming I have to rewrite the drawBackground() function, but how would I rewrite it?
I do not want to add the image as a QGraphicsPixmapItem to my QGraphicsScene and then set the image to (0,0) and scale it so it takes up my QGraphicsView background. I would like to do all this inside the QGraphicsView class.

[aamer4yu]

I am assuming I have to rewrite the drawBackground() function,

You are right. You will need to subclass QGraphicsView and override the drawbackground function in your class.

Also you can try stylesheets. view->setStyleSheet("background-image : url("...."));

Hope this helps

[di_zou]

Style sheets is not quite what I wanted so I did by reqriting the drawBackground() function.

This is what I did:

sceneRect = self.sceneRect()
 
pic = QPixmap(":/images/68799212.png")
rectf = QRectF(pic.rect())
painter.drawPixmap(sceneRect, pic, rectf)

sceneRect = self.sceneRect()
        
pic = QPixmap(":/images/68799212.png")
rectf = QRectF(pic.rect())
painter.drawPixmap(sceneRect, pic, rectf)

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Thanks!