QPainter not active

c++ qt qpainter
wrongusername picture wrongusername · Dec 3, 2010 · Viewed 20.7k times · Source

The following code results in a bunch of errors:

void MainWindow::displayBoard()
{
    QPixmap pix(0,0);
    pix.fill(Qt::white);
    QPainter painter(&pix);
    painter.setBrush(Qt::black);
    for(int row = 0; row < 8; row++)
        for(int col = 0; col < 8; col++)
            painter.drawRect(row * 10, col * 10, 10, 10);
    ui->label->setPixmap(pix);
}

The errors:

QPainter::begin: Paint device returned engine == 0, type: 2
QPainter::setBrush: Painter not active
QPainter::drawRects: Painter not active

How can I resolve this error?

Answer

wrongusername picture wrongusername · Dec 3, 2010

The problem was that, as Colin pointed out, pix was size zero.

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