How to use QPainter on QPixmap

Question

I'm a newbie to Qt/Embedded. I want to use QPainter to draw stuff on a QPixmap, which will be added to QGraphicsScene. Here is my code. But it does not show the drawings on the pixmap. It shows only the black pixmap.

int main(int argc, char **argv) {

  QApplication a(argc, argv);

  QMainWindow *win1 = new QMainWindow();
  win1->resize(500,500);
  win1->show();


  QGraphicsScene *scene = new QGraphicsScene(win1);
  QGraphicsView view(scene, win1);
  view.show();
  view.resize(500,500);

  QPixmap *pix = new QPixmap(500,500);
  scene->addPixmap(*pix);

  QPainter *paint = new QPainter(pix);
  paint->setPen(*(new QColor(255,34,255,255)));
  paint->drawRect(15,15,100,100);

  return a.exec();
}

Answer 1

You need to do the painting on the bitmap before you add it to the scene. When you add it to the scene, the scene will use it to construct a QGraphicsPixmapItem object, which is also returned by the addPixmap() function. If you want to update the pixmap after it has been added, you need to call the setPixmap() function of the returned QGraphicsPixmapItem object.

So either:

...
QPixmap *pix = new QPixmap(500,500);
QPainter *paint = new QPainter(pix);
paint->setPen(*(new QColor(255,34,255,255)));
paint->drawRect(15,15,100,100);
scene->addPixmap(*pix); // Moved this line
...

or:

...
QPixmap *pix = new QPixmap(500,500);
QGraphicsPixmapItem* item(scene->addPixmap(*pix)); // Save the returned item
QPainter *paint = new QPainter(pix);
paint->setPen(*(new QColor(255,34,255,255)));
paint->drawRect(15,15,100,100);
item->setPixmap(*pix); // Added this line
...