Qt drawing a filled rounded rectangle with border

Question

I want to draw a rectangle with rounded corners (border radius same for all 4 corners) with a specific color filling the entire rectangle, and a separate border color (say border is 1 px wide).

From my observation, Qt provides three methods - fillRect and drawRect and drawRoundedRect. I have tried them, they don't work like I want to. There is no method like fillRoundedRect. Which means that I can draw a rounded rectangle but it won't be filled with the color I want.

How do I do it? And also, I read that due to some aliasing problems, the corners are often rendered as unequal. How do I set it as equal for all four? Will painter.setRenderHint(QPainter::Antialiasing) suffice? Or do I have to do anything else?

Answer 1

You can create a QPainterPath, add the rounded rect to it, and then fill and stroke it:

QPainter p(this);
p.setRenderHint(QPainter::Antialiasing);
QPainterPath path;
path.addRoundedRect(QRectF(10, 10, 100, 50), 10, 10);
QPen pen(Qt::black, 10);
p.setPen(pen);
p.fillPath(path, Qt::red);
p.drawPath(path);

Note that even with antialiasing, 1 px border will probably never really look good, especially on a low DPI desktop monitor, on a high DPI mobile device it will be almost invisible.

If you create the rectangle as QRectF(9.5, 9.5, 100, 50) it will look better with 1 px antialiased border, because it will "snap" on the right pixel: