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    Question Painting over QOpenGLWidget in QGraphicsview clears viewport

    I'm making an application where I draw an image on a QGraphicsScene and then draw items over the scene in viewport coordinates (as I always want the items to appear in the same place, regardless of transformations of the scene).

    In order to accomplish this I created the following subclass of QImageView:

    Qt Code:
    1. class ImageView : public QGraphicsView
    2. {
    3. public:
    4. ImageView(QWidget* parent = nullptr)
    5. :QGraphicsView(parent)
    6. {
    7. }
    8.  
    9. protected:
    10. void paintEvent(QPaintEvent* event)
    11. {
    12. QGraphicsView::paintEvent(event);
    13. QPainter painter(viewport());
    14. painter.setPen(QPen(Qt::green));
    15. painter.drawRect(0, 0, 100, 100);
    16. }
    17. };
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    When using the standard viewport, this code works perfectly. However, when I set a QOpenQLWidget as viewport (using "myView->setViewport(new QOpenGLWidget());"), it will no longer paint
    the image in the scene, only the green rectangle from the paintEvent. If I comment out the last 3 lines of the paintEvent, the image is drawn normally.

    Through a bit of experimentation I learned that creating a QPainter with the QOpenGLWidget, will clear the widget.

    As an alternative option I tried creating a class derived from QOpenGLWidget, overriding the paintGL() method (so that it paints the green rectangle) and then setting it as the viewport in a standard QGraphicsView. This didn't work either as the paintGL method is never called when the widget is used as a viewport.

    So my questions are simple: Why doesn't the above code work with QOpenGLWidgets and how can I make it work?

    To sum it up I need to do the following things:
    • Draw an image on a QGraphicsScene (or anywhere elsewhere I can zoom and translate at will).
    • Draw items over the image at a fixed place (so that they are always visible and not affected by zoom or translation).
    • It is important to note that the things I draw may not be known at compile time (in the actual application I draw a QPicture, which can contain anything).


    The code example above is the smallest class I could create where I could recreate the problem, if you need more information please let me know.

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    Default Re: Painting over QOpenGLWidget in QGraphicsview clears viewport

    Draw items over the image at a fixed place (so that they are always visible and not affected by zoom or translation).
    Have a look at QGraphicsView::drawForeground(). I use a class derived from QGraphicsView where I actually have two scenes. One of them is the conventional scene that is drawn in the paint event, the other is a special scene that holds the overlay objects. This one is drawn in drawForeground() and can have a transformation matrix different from the other scene. (The widget is actually more complex than that - it also uses the drawBackground() method to draw a bitmap image which is then overlaid by the scene, which is then overlaid by the foreground scene).

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    Default Re: Painting over QOpenGLWidget in QGraphicsview clears viewport

    Thank you for your reply,

    I replaced the paintEvent method in my class (see start of thread) with the following method:
    Qt Code:
    1. void drawForeground(QPainter* painter, const QRectF& rect)
    2. {
    3. QGraphicsView::drawForeground(painter, rect);
    4.  
    5. painter->save();
    6. painter->resetMatrix();
    7. painter->resetTransform();
    8. painter->setPen(QPen(Qt::green));
    9. painter->drawRect(QRect(0, 0, 100, 100));
    10. painter->restore();
    11. }
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    It looks like this works exactly as I need it to (no problems with zooming or translations).

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