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QImage in a QGraphics scene

I am quite new to Qt. I am having troubles in inserting a QImage to a scene. Could somebody please tell me how to add a QImage to a QGraphicsScene?

Solution

  • For this you would use a QGraphicsPixmapItem that you add to the scene like any other QGraphicsItem.

    The QGraphicsPixmapItem can be initialized with a QPixmap which is a device-dependent representation of a bitmap and you can get it from a QImage for example with the static function QPixmap::fromImage().

    Update (example code)

    #include <QtGlobal>

#if QT_VERSION >= 0x050000
    #include <QtWidgets>
#else
    #include <QtGui>
#endif

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
    QApplication a(argc, argv);
    QImage image("test.png");

    QGraphicsPixmapItem item( QPixmap::fromImage(image));
    QGraphicsScene* scene = new QGraphicsScene;
    scene->addItem(&item);

    QGraphicsView view(scene);
    view.show();
    return a.exec();
}