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    Default Simplest example for QGraphicsPixmapItem

    Hello I really need help. I need the simplest possible example for QGraphicsPixmapItem.

    Maybe simple can be defined this way (but this is for QGraphicsEllipseItem)

    Qt Code:
    1. #include <QGraphicsEllipseItem>
    2. #include <QGraphicsScene>
    3. #include <QGraphicsView>
    4.  
    5. int main( int argc, char **argv )
    6. {
    7. QApplication app(argc, argv);
    8.  
    9. scene.setSceneRect( -100.0, -100.0, 200.0, 200.0 );
    10.  
    11. QGraphicsEllipseItem *item = new QGraphicsEllipseItem( 0, &scene );
    12. item->setRect( -50.0, -50.0, 100.0, 100.0 );
    13.  
    14. QGraphicsView view( &scene );
    15. view.setRenderHints( QPainter::Antialiasing );
    16. view.show();
    17.  
    18. return app.exec();
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    Default Re: Simplest example for QGraphicsPixmapItem

    Substitute lines 12 and 13 with:
    Qt Code:
    1. QGraphicsPixmapItem *item = new QGraphicsPixmapItem(QPixmap("yourpixmapfilehere.png"), &scene);
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    Default Re: Simplest example for QGraphicsPixmapItem

    How about
    Qt Code:
    1. #include <QtGui>
    2.  
    3. int main( int argc, char **argv )
    4. {
    5. QApplication app(argc, argv);
    6. QGraphicsView view(&scene);
    7. QPixmap pixmap(":/trolltech/styles/commonstyle/images/standardbutton-help-32.png");
    8.  
    9. for (int i=0;i<50;i++){
    10. QGraphicsPixmapItem* item = scene.addPixmap(pixmap);
    11. item->moveBy(qrand()%200-100, qrand()%200-100);
    12. item->rotate(qrand()%360);
    13. item->setFlag(QGraphicsItem::ItemIsMovable);
    14. }
    15.  
    16. view.setRenderHints( QPainter::SmoothPixmapTransform );
    17. view.show();
    18. return app.exec();
    19. }
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    or if you're going for brevity
    Qt Code:
    1. #include <QtGui>
    2.  
    3. int main( int argc, char **argv )
    4. {
    5. QApplication app(argc, argv);
    6. view.scene()->addPixmap(QPixmap(":/trolltech/styles/commonstyle/images/standardbutton-help-32.png"));
    7. view.show();
    8. return app.exec();
    9. }
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    Default Re: Simplest example for QGraphicsPixmapItem

    problem solved at last.

    @wysota Thank you very much for all your help. Sorry for sending duplicate stuff to your inbox.

    @spud Thanks too.

    I can't thank all of you enough. Thanks thanks thanks.

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    Default Re: Simplest example for QGraphicsPixmapItem: exception not thrown for bad filename

    FYI you must supply a valid path to the file. At least in PySide, after translating the example to Python: No exception is thrown if the file path is wrong, and the view displays blank (without an image).

    That seems like a bug. One of the preconditions to QPixmap(filename) constructor should be: the file exists.
    Maybe it is a limitation of the PySide binding: maybe the C++ function returns an error code.

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    Default Re: Simplest example for QGraphicsPixmapItem: exception not thrown for bad filename

    This thread has been rotting in its grave for over 5 years. Why dig it up now?

    The behaviour of the QPixmap( filename ) constructor when the file does not exist (or no plugin is available to render the image in it) is not a bug; it takes a graceful approach to resolving the problem by simply displaying an empty pixmap, rather than blowing up your program for you. C++ constructors cannot return error codes, they can only throw exceptions or set some flag inside the new instance to indicate that the object could not be constructed in a valid internal state. There is no convention for this, and the Qt approach is much more user friendly than throwing an exception.

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    Default Re: Simplest example for QGraphicsPixmapItem

    Sorry, you're correct. I didn't read the documentation for QPixmap.

    But then the documentation for QGraphicsPixmapItem() is weak: it could say "If the passed pixmap is null, the QGraphicsPixmapItem will not be visible at any scale." (If thats how it behaves.) I suppose "there exists some scale at which the item is visible" is not an invariant of the QGraphicsItem class.

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    Default Re: Simplest example for QGraphicsPixmapItem

    Quote Originally Posted by bootchk View Post
    If the passed pixmap is null, the QGraphicsPixmapItem will not be visible at any scale.
    Hmm... isn't that obvious? What else exactly would you expect to see when passing a null pixmap?
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