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    Default Looking for advices to do a ruler plus other questions

    Hi,
    It is my very first post in the Qt center I'll try to be clear.
    I have 3 questions.

    First question:
    My plot represents a sky view of a map XY. I would like to create a ruler to compute distance between to points a(x1,y1) and b(x2,y2).
    And I need also a way to draw one line from point a to point b when the ruler is activated.
    I was hesitating between 2 possibilities:
    - First way: use a QwtPlotPicker in polygon state machine. But I couldn't find a good example of how to manage the appended and selected signals. And in my case I don't really need several lines but just ONE line.
    - Second way: Create my own QwtPlotItem that use a QwtPlotPicker with click machine and manage first and second click to compute distances and draw the line.

    If their is a smarter way to do this I would like to know.
    Hoping a ruler tool could be provided by default in qwt library.


    Second question:
    Is there a way to change the mouse shape or color? I would like to make it a little bit transparent.


    Last question:
    This is a general question since I'm new in Qt.
    When we do something like:
    setStateMachine(new QwtPickerTrackerMachine());
    or
    setSymbol(ptr_symbol);
    or
    setValidator(new QDoubleValidator()); (for a QLineEdit)

    who is in charge of deleting the pointers?
    Thanks by advance.

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    Default Re: Looking for advices to do a ruler plus other questions

    Qt Code:
    1. class PickerDragLineMachine: public QwtPickerMachine
    2. {
    3. public:
    4. PickerDragLineMachine():
    5. QwtPickerMachine( PolygonSelection )
    6. {
    7. }
    8.  
    9. virtual QList<Command> transition(
    10. const QwtEventPattern &eventPattern, const QEvent *event )
    11. {
    12. QList<QwtPickerMachine::Command> cmdList;
    13.  
    14. if ( event->type() == QEvent::MouseButtonPress )
    15. {
    16. if ( eventPattern.mouseMatch( QwtEventPattern::MouseSelect1,
    17. static_cast<const QMouseEvent *>( event ) ) )
    18. {
    19. if ( state() == 0 )
    20. {
    21. cmdList += Begin;
    22. cmdList += Append;
    23. cmdList += Append;
    24. setState( 1 );
    25. }
    26. }
    27. }
    28. else if ( event->type() == QEvent::MouseMove )
    29. {
    30. if ( state() != 0 )
    31. cmdList += Move;
    32. }
    33. else if ( event->type() == QEvent::MouseButtonRelease )
    34. {
    35. if ( state() != 0 )
    36. {
    37. cmdList += End;
    38. setState( 0 );
    39. }
    40. }
    41.  
    42. return cmdList;
    43. }
    44. };
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    Qt Code:
    1. class DistancePicker: public QwtPlotPicker
    2. {
    3. public:
    4. DistancePicker( QWidget *canvas ):
    5. QwtPlotPicker( canvas )
    6. {
    7. setTrackerMode( QwtPicker::ActiveOnly );
    8. setStateMachine( new PickerDragLineMachine() );
    9. setMousePattern( QwtEventPattern::MouseSelect1, Qt::LeftButton );
    10. setRubberBand( QwtPlotPicker::PolygonRubberBand );
    11. }
    12.  
    13. virtual QwtText trackerTextF( const QPointF &pos ) const
    14. {
    15. QwtText text;
    16.  
    17. const QPolygon points = selection();
    18. if ( !points.isEmpty() )
    19. {
    20. QString num;
    21. num.setNum( QLineF( pos, invTransform( points[0] ) ).length() );
    22.  
    23. QColor bg( Qt::white );
    24. bg.setAlpha( 200 );
    25.  
    26. text.setBackgroundBrush( QBrush( bg ) );
    27. text.setText( num );
    28. }
    29. return text;
    30. }
    31. };
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    HTH,
    Uwe

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    Default Re: Looking for advices to do a ruler plus other questions

    Thank you so much for this.
    Is It possible to put these lines in further examples provided by the library in such a way that users can see how we can easily implement our own pickermachine then our own pickeritem.

    Just one question, why their is 2 times append in cmdlist?

    Thanks again uwe.

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    Default Re: Looking for advices to do a ruler plus other questions

    Quote Originally Posted by raphael.lencrerot View Post
    Is It possible to put these lines in further examples provided by the library in such a way that users can see how we can easily implement our own pickermachine then our own pickeritem.
    This example doesn't contain more information than what you have had when looking at the implementation of any picker machine. In fact I did nothing else than copying the transition method from 2 existing machines.

    Quote Originally Posted by raphael.lencrerot View Post
    Just one question, why their is 2 times append in cmdlist?
    Because a line consists of 2 points - the second one gets moved by mouse move events.

    Uwe

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    Default Re: Looking for advices to do a ruler plus other questions

    Ok,
    thanks again.

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    Default Re: Looking for advices to do a ruler plus other questions

    I have added QwtPickerDragLineMachine to SVN trunk - the scatterplot example shows an implementation of a picker for distance measurements using it.

    Uwe

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    Default Re: Looking for advices to do a ruler plus other questions

    Nice !
    My plotting software is almost finished. I'll will then integrate this change ASAP to reduce lines code.

    Thanks again for your hard work.

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    Default Re: Looking for advices to do a ruler plus other questions

    @Uwe
    Would you please, set what are the includes we have to used to get the code posted to compile ? and would you add some expmle to show how to use??

    thanks.

    I have added these #includes:

    #include <QtCore>
    #include <qwt_picker_machine.h>
    #include <qevent.h>

    still getting this error
    PickerDragLineMachin.cpp:24: error: invalid use of incomplete type 'const struct QwtEventPattern'


    Added after 1 22 minutes:


    Thanks It was clear, I was just blinded i guess.

    add :
    #include <QtCore>
    #include <qwt_picker_machine.h>
    #include <qevent.h>
    #include <qwt_event_pattern.h>

    in PickerDragLineMachin
    and
    #include <QtCore>
    #include <qwt_text.h>
    #include <qwt_plot_picker.h>
    #include "PickerDragLineMachin.h"

    now its working great.

    Thank you so much for you code and your effort, It is a real help.
    best regards,

    Jesse.
    Last edited by jesse_mark; 5th February 2015 at 23:15.

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