Paint System¶
A system for painting on the screen or on print devices using the same API
Qt’s paint system enables painting on screen and print devices using the same API, and is primarily based on the
QPainter,QPaintDevice, andQPaintEngineclasses.
QPainteris used to perform drawing operations,QPaintDeviceis an abstraction of a two-dimensional space that can be painted on using aQPainter, andQPaintEngineprovides the interface that the painter uses to draw onto different types of devices. TheQPaintEngineclass is used internally byQPainterandQPaintDevice, and is hidden from application programmers unless they create their own device type.
The main benefit of this approach is that all painting follows the same painting pipeline making it easy to add support for new features and providing default implementations for unsupported ones.
Topics¶
Classes for Painting¶
These classes provide support for painting onto a paint device.
The QBitmap class provides monochrome (1-bit depth) pixmaps.
The QIcon class provides scalable icons in different modes and states.
The QIconEngine class provides an abstract base class for QIcon renderers.
The QImage class provides a hardware-independent image representation that allows direct access to the pixel data, and can be used as a paint device.
The QImageReader class provides a format independent interface for reading images from files or other devices.
The QImageWriter class provides a format independent interface for writing images to files or other devices.
The QPictureIO class contains parameters for loading and saving pictures.
The QPixmap class is an off-screen image representation that can be used as a paint device.
PySide2.QtGui.QGenericMatrixThe QGenericMatrix class is a template class that represents a NxM transformation matrix with N columns and M rows.
The QVector2D class represents a vector or vertex in 2D space.
The QBrush class defines the fill pattern of shapes drawn by QPainter.
The QGradient class is used in combination with QBrush to specify gradient fills.
The QLinearGradient class is used in combination with QBrush to specify a linear gradient brush.
The QRadialGradient class is used in combination with QBrush to specify a radial gradient brush.
The QConicalGradient class is used in combination with QBrush to specify a conical gradient brush.
The QColor class provides colors based on RGB, HSV or CMYK values.
The QColorSpace class provides a color space abstraction.
QColorTransformThe QColorTransform class is a transformation between color spaces.
The QMatrix class specifies 2D transformations of a coordinate system.
The QPagedPaintDevice class represents a paint device that supports multiple pages.
The QPaintDevice class is the base class of objects that can be painted on with QPainter.
The QPaintEngine class provides an abstract definition of how QPainter draws to a given device on a given platform.
The QPainter class performs low-level painting on widgets and other paint devices.
The QPainterPath class provides a container for painting operations, enabling graphical shapes to be constructed and reused.
The QPainterPathStroker class is used to generate fillable outlines for a given painter path.
The QPdfWriter class is a class to generate PDFs that can be used as a paint device.
The QPen class defines how a QPainter should draw lines and outlines of shapes.
The QPolygon class provides a vector of points using integer precision.
The QPolygonF class provides a vector of points using floating point precision.
The QRegion class specifies a clip region for a painter.
QRgba64The QRgba64 struct contains a 64-bit RGB color.
The QTransform class specifies 2D transformations of a coordinate system.
The QFont class specifies a query for a font used for drawing text.
The QFontMetrics class provides font metrics information.
The QFontMetricsF class provides font metrics information.
QSupportedWritingSystemsThe QSupportedWritingSystems class is used when registering fonts with the internal Qt fontdatabase.
The QPlatformFontDatabase class makes it possible to customize how fonts are discovered and how they are rendered
The QLine class provides a two-dimensional vector using integer precision.
The QLineF class provides a two-dimensional vector using floating point precision.
The QMargins class defines the four margins of a rectangle.
The QMarginsF class defines the four margins of a rectangle.
The QPoint class defines a point in the plane using integer precision.
The QPointF class defines a point in the plane using floating point precision.
The QRect class defines a rectangle in the plane using integer precision.
The QRectF class defines a rectangle in the plane using floating point precision.
The QSize class defines the size of a two-dimensional object using integer point precision.
The QSizeF class defines the size of a two-dimensional object using floating point precision.
The QSvgGenerator class provides a paint device that is used to create SVG drawings.
The QSvgRenderer class is used to draw the contents of SVG files onto paint devices.
The QSvgWidget class provides a widget that is used to display the contents of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) files.
The QPixmapFilter class provides the basic functionality for pixmap filter classes. Pixmap filter can be for example colorize or blur.
The QPixmapConvolutionFilter class provides convolution filtering for pixmaps.
The QPixmapColorizeFilter class provides colorizing filtering for pixmaps.
The QPixmapDropShadowFilter class is a convenience class for drawing pixmaps with drop shadows.
The QStylePainter class is a convenience class for drawing QStyle elements inside a widget.
The QColormap class maps device independent QColors to device dependent pixel values.
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