NAME

QwtPlotCanvas - Canvas of a QwtPlot.

SYNOPSIS

#include <qwt_plot_canvas.h>

Inherits QFrame.

Public Types

enum PaintAttribute { BackingStore = 1, Opaque = 2, HackStyledBackground = 4, ImmediatePaint = 8 }
Paint attributes. enum FocusIndicator { NoFocusIndicator, CanvasFocusIndicator, ItemFocusIndicator }
Focus indicator The default setting is NoFocusIndicator. typedef QFlags< PaintAttribute > PaintAttributes
Paint attributes.

Public Slots

void replot ()

Public Member Functions

QwtPlotCanvas (QwtPlot *=NULL)
Constructor. virtual ~QwtPlotCanvas ()
Destructor. QwtPlot * plot ()
Return parent plot widget. const QwtPlot * plot () const
Return parent plot widget. void setFocusIndicator (FocusIndicator)
FocusIndicator focusIndicator () const
void setBorderRadius (double)
double borderRadius () const
void setPaintAttribute (PaintAttribute, bool on=true)
Changing the paint attributes. bool testPaintAttribute (PaintAttribute) const
const QPixmap * backingStore () const
void invalidateBackingStore ()
Invalidate the internal backing store. virtual bool event (QEvent *)
Q_INVOKABLE QPainterPath borderPath (const QRect &) const

Protected Member Functions

virtual void paintEvent (QPaintEvent *)
virtual void resizeEvent (QResizeEvent *)
virtual void drawFocusIndicator (QPainter *)
virtual void drawBorder (QPainter *)
void updateStyleSheetInfo ()
Update the cached information about the current style sheet.

Detailed Description

Canvas of a QwtPlot.

Canvas is the widget where all plot items are displayed

See also:

QwtPlot::setCanvas(), QwtPlotGLCanvas

Member Enumeration Documentation

enum QwtPlotCanvas::FocusIndicator

Focus indicator The default setting is NoFocusIndicator.

See also:

setFocusIndicator(), focusIndicator(), drawFocusIndicator()

Enumerator

NoFocusIndicator: Don't paint a focus indicator.
CanvasFocusIndicator: The focus is related to the complete canvas. Paint the focus indicator using drawFocusIndicator()
ItemFocusIndicator: The focus is related to an item (curve, point, ...) on the canvas. It is up to the application to display a focus indication using f.e. highlighting.

enum QwtPlotCanvas::PaintAttribute

Paint attributes. The default setting enables BackingStore and Opaque.

See also:

setPaintAttribute(), testPaintAttribute()

Enumerator

BackingStore: Paint double buffered reusing the content of the pixmap buffer when possible. Using a backing store might improve the performance significantly, when working with widget overlays ( like rubber bands ). Disabling the cache might improve the performance for incremental paints (using QwtPlotDirectPainter ).

See also:

backingStore(), invalidateBackingStore()

Opaque: Try to fill the complete contents rectangle of the plot canvas. When using styled backgrounds Qt assumes, that the canvas doesn't fill its area completely ( f.e because of rounded borders ) and fills the area below the canvas. When this is done with gradients it might result in a serious performance bottleneck - depending on the size.

When the Opaque attribute is enabled the canvas tries to identify the gaps with some heuristics and to fill those only.

Warning:

Will not work for semitransparent backgrounds

HackStyledBackground: Try to improve painting of styled backgrounds. QwtPlotCanvas supports the box model attributes for customizing the layout with style sheets. Unfortunately the design of Qt style sheets has no concept how to handle backgrounds with rounded corners - beside of padding.

When HackStyledBackground is enabled the plot canvas tries to separate the background from the background border by reverse engineering to paint the background before and the border after the plot items. In this order the border gets perfectly antialiased and you can avoid some pixel artifacts in the corners.