draw in a QFrame on clicking a button.

Question

Say there is a QPushButton named "Draw", a QLineEdit and a QFrame. On clicking the button I want to take a number from QLineEdit and draw a circle in a QFrame. How can I do this? Please provide me with the code.

P.S. The problem is that draw methods of the QPainter should be called in drawEvent method.

Answer 1

If @Kaleb Pederson's answer is not enough for you then here's a complete solution for a simple set-up matching what you describe. Tested with Qt 4.5.2 on Linux. I had some spare time... ;)

main.cpp:

#include <QApplication>
#include "window.h"

int main( int argc, char** argv )
{
    QApplication qapp( argc, argv );

    Window w;
    w.show();

    return qapp.exec();
}

window.h

#pragma once

class QLineEdit;
class QPushButton;
#include <QWidget>

class Frame;

class Window : public QWidget
{
Q_OBJECT

public:
    Window();

private slots:
    void onButtonClicked();

private:
    QLineEdit*   m_lineEdit;
    QPushButton* m_pushButton;
    Frame*       m_frame;
};

window.cpp:

#include <QHBoxLayout>
#include <QLineEdit>
#include <QPushButton>
#include <QVBoxLayout>

#include "frame.h"
#include "window.h"

Window::Window()
    : m_lineEdit  ( new QLineEdit( this ) )
    , m_pushButton( new QPushButton( tr( "Draw" ), this ) )
    , m_frame     ( new Frame( this ) )
{
    connect( m_pushButton, SIGNAL( clicked() )
           , SLOT( onButtonClicked() ) );

    QHBoxLayout*const hLayout = new QHBoxLayout;
    hLayout->addWidget( m_lineEdit );
    hLayout->addWidget( m_pushButton );

    QVBoxLayout*const vLayout = new QVBoxLayout( this );
    vLayout->addLayout( hLayout );
    m_frame->setFixedSize( 300, 400 );
    vLayout->addWidget( m_frame );

    setLayout( vLayout );
}

void Window::onButtonClicked()
{
    const int r = m_lineEdit->text().toInt(); // r == 0 if invalid
    m_frame->setCircleRadius( r );
    m_frame->update();
}

frame.h:

#pragma once

#include <QFrame>

class Frame : public QFrame
{
Q_OBJECT

public:
    Frame( QWidget* );

    void setCircleRadius( int );

protected:
    void paintEvent( QPaintEvent* );

private:
    int m_radius;
};

frame.cpp:

#include <QPainter>

#include "frame.h"

Frame::Frame( QWidget* parent )
    : QFrame( parent )
    , m_radius( 0 )
{
    setFrameStyle( QFrame::Box );
}

void Frame::setCircleRadius( int radius )
{
    m_radius = radius;
}

void Frame::paintEvent( QPaintEvent* pe )
{
    QFrame::paintEvent( pe );

    if ( m_radius > 0 )
    {
        QPainter p( this );
        p.drawEllipse( rect().center(), m_radius, m_radius );
    }
}