QwtDial: how to move drawing of the scale to the edges ?

[phenoboy]

Of course it is, but the code for the scales is a couple of years older ( written for QwtKnob ) than QwtDial and I took what was available at that time.



The difficult part is the layout code to avoid, that tick labels overlap ( sizeHint ... ) - usually a dial has more than only 1-2 labels like in your example. Note that QwtRoundScaleDraw is also used in the qwtpolar package.

If you have something useful please upload a patch to: http://sourceforge.net/p/qwt/patches/?source=navbar

Uwe

I had a few minutes to look at this. It is not perfect. But starting to look quite allright for my purposes. For ticks code I just changed radius to radius - len( tick length from argument). Labels are harder. In drawLabel I'm just estimating radius (radius = radius - ticklen(MajorTick)*3. Sorry, Uwe I'm abusing your beautiful code It's not that easy to calculate correct radius. Font size should be taken into account too..

Where is this white arc drawn that follows ticks? It might look better if I could remove it ?

[phenoboy]

Where is this white arc drawn that follows ticks? It might look better if I could remove it ?

Found it. It's the drawBackbone function.