Qt Coordinate System and the Graphics View Framework

[jiggersplat]

has anyone managed to figure out if there is a good way to rotate/translate the coordinate system so that when drawing angles, zero degrees is up and value increase clockwise instead of zero degrees to the right and values increase counter-clockwise?

[HappyCactus]

I have found the solution.
Use a QGraphicsItemGroup to contain the text items. Use the group to set coords, scales and rotation. The text items ignores the transformations.
For example:

QGraphicsItemGroup *grp = new QGraphicsItemGroup;
QGraphicsTextItem *text = new QGraphicsTextItem("text");
grp->addToGroup(text);
text->setFont(font);
text->setPos(0,0);
text->setFlag(QGraphicsItem::ItemIgnoresTransformations);
grp->setPos(x,y);

QGraphicsItemGroup *grp = new QGraphicsItemGroup;
QGraphicsTextItem *text = new QGraphicsTextItem("text");
grp->addToGroup(text);
text->setFont(font);
text->setPos(0,0);
text->setFlag(QGraphicsItem::ItemIgnoresTransformations);
grp->setPos(x,y);

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Pay attention that the text item must be added to group before his setting his coordinates, since coordinates of the sub-item are relative to the parent item, BUT when adding the item to the group his coords relative to the scene are preserved.

Hope that helps.