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    Default Patterned Qwt Legend Line and Plot Line look different if thickness is greater than 1

    We do have a fix to the problem we were having with Qwt 6.1.3 (built with Qt 5.5.1) on Windows. This with the standard QwtLegend implementation. The fix is: commenting out the call to QPen::setCapStyle (Qt::FlatCap) in method QwtPlotCurve::legendIcon().

    Uwe, and anyone else who knows about this. Is this fix (omitting call to setCapStyle) the right idea? Or am I missing something?

    The two following screenshots show the discrepancy. Both have a line width of 2. Dotted, and Dashed:

    Plot1-Prob-Dot2.png
    Plot2-Prob-Dash2.png

    http://cadswes2.colorado.edu/~philw/...-Prob-Dot2.png
    http://cadswes2.colorado.edu/~philw/...Prob-Dash2.png

    Here's a closer look at the problem. The "fixed" version matches what is shown on the plot:

    LegendProb.jpg

    http://cadswes2.colorado.edu/~philw/...LegendProb.png

    The following show a fix -- effectively commenting out this line in QwtPlotCurve::legendIcon():
    • pn.setCapStyle( Qt::FlatCap );


    Plot3-Fix-Dot2.png
    Plot4-Fix-Dash2.png

    http://cadswes2.colorado.edu/~philw/...3-Fix-Dot2.png
    http://cadswes2.colorado.edu/~philw/...-Fix-Dash2.png

    Instead of actually modifying QwtPlotCurve::legendIcon(), we lifted that implementation out of that class, and implemented a modified version in our QwtPlotCurve subclass.

    Qt Code:
    1. // virtual from QwtPlotCurve
    2. QwtGraphic SlotCurve::legendIcon (int index, // (ignore, only one)
    3. const QSizeF& iconSize) const
    4. {
    5. // call base class method
    6. //-- QwtGraphic graphic = QwtPlotCurve::legendIcon (index, iconSize);
    7.  
    8. // Note [Phil, 3-2017, RW 7.1, Qwt 6.1.3, Qt 5.5.1, Gnats 5864]:
    9. // The following code is adapted from QwtPlotCurve::legendIcon().
    10. // See the fix for Gnats 5864, below ("Legend and plot line look
    11. // different if thickness is greater than one").
    12.  
    13. Q_UNUSED( index );
    14.  
    15. if ( iconSize.isEmpty() )
    16. return QwtGraphic();
    17.  
    18. QwtGraphic graphic;
    19. graphic.setDefaultSize( iconSize );
    20. graphic.setRenderHint( QwtGraphic::RenderPensUnscaled, true );
    21.  
    22. QPainter painter( &graphic );
    23. painter.setRenderHint( QPainter::Antialiasing,
    24. testRenderHint( QwtPlotItem::RenderAntialiased ) );
    25.  
    26. bool doShowLine = testLegendAttribute (QwtPlotCurve::LegendShowLine);
    27. bool doShowSymb = testLegendAttribute (QwtPlotCurve::LegendShowSymbol);
    28. bool doShowBrush = testLegendAttribute (QwtPlotCurve::LegendShowBrush);
    29. bool noAttribs = !(doShowLine || doShowSymb || doShowBrush);
    30.  
    31. const QPen curvePen = pen();
    32. const QwtSymbol* curveSymb = symbol();
    33.  
    34. if ( noAttribs || doShowBrush)
    35. {
    36. QBrush curveBrush = brush();
    37.  
    38. if ( curveBrush.style() == Qt::NoBrush && noAttribs )
    39. {
    40. if ( style() != QwtPlotCurve::NoCurve )
    41. {
    42. curveBrush = QBrush( curvePen.color() );
    43. }
    44. else if ( curveSymb && (curveSymb->style() != QwtSymbol::NoSymbol) )
    45. {
    46. curveBrush = QBrush( curveSymb->pen().color() );
    47. }
    48. }
    49.  
    50. if ( curveBrush.style() != Qt::NoBrush )
    51. {
    52. QRectF r( 0, 0, iconSize.width(), iconSize.height() );
    53. painter.fillRect( r, curveBrush );
    54. }
    55. }
    56.  
    57. if ( doShowLine )
    58. {
    59. if ( curvePen != Qt::NoPen )
    60. {
    61. // CADSWES FIX, Gnats 5864 ("Legend and plot line look different if
    62. // thickness is greater than one"). DON'T set the pen Cap Style.
    63. //
    64. //-- QPen pn = curvePen;
    65. //-- pn.setCapStyle( Qt::FlatCap );
    66. //-- painter.setPen( pn );
    67.  
    68. painter.setPen( curvePen );
    69. const double y = 0.5 * iconSize.height();
    70. QwtPainter::drawLine( &painter, 0.0, y, iconSize.width(), y );
    71. }
    72. }
    73.  
    74. if ( doShowSymb )
    75. {
    76. if ( curveSymb )
    77. {
    78. QRectF r( 0, 0, iconSize.width(), iconSize.height() );
    79. curveSymb->drawSymbol( &painter, r );
    80. }
    81. }
    82.  
    83. return graphic;
    84. }
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    Default Re: Patterned Qwt Legend Line and Plot Line look different if thickness is greater th

    If you prefer to keep the cap style from the curve sure. To be honest I can't remember the reason behind explicitly setting FlatCap - maybe because of trying to get rid of the extra pixels at the ends, that make drawing the line inaccurate.

    Uwe

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    Default Re: Patterned Qwt Legend Line and Plot Line look different if thickness is greater th

    Oh wow. Uwe, that's interesting.

    We didn't intend to set a Qt::PenCapStyle on our QwtPlotCurves' pens. We do want our curves to be as precise as possible, and would want to stick with Qt::FlatCap. We aren't explicitly doing anything with cap style, but I am understanding that a defaulted constructed QPen -- or one constructed from a color or pen style (e.g. Dotted) -- has a cap style of Qt::SquareCap. (We must be assigning a QPen like that to our QwtPlotCurves, but I haven't found that in our code yet).

    I DO see that when I force our QwtPlotCurves to have the Qt::FlatCap cap style -- see below -- the QwtLegend does show pen styles (e.g. Dotted) consistently with the plotted curve (with my modified code omitting the setting of the legend line's cap style -- see my prior post). So that explicit setting of Qt::FlatCap in QwtPlotCurve::legendIcon() I found seems to be unnecessary (at least now, in Qwt 6.1.3) [using Qt 5.5.1].

    Qt Code:
    1. QPen curvePen = pen();
    2. curvePen.setCapStyle (Qt::FlatCap);
    3. setPen (curvePen);
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