QPainter Question

[atb]

Hi
I would like to add a industry-specific primitive to QPainter. So when I use QGraphicsScene or write to a PDF device, this primitive can be used. How would I archive this?

thanks in advance
Andrew

[wysota]

Could you provide more details? Why would you want to add such a primitive?

[atb]

Hi
I wanted to do this to pass a file through the painting system into a QGraphicScene with the primitives from the file. This would allow the industry-specific primitives to be edited instead of the basic painter primitives

The way I found to do this is to use QPaintPath.

Thanks for your post
Andrew

[wysota]

From what you say it probably means you want to implement a custom QGraphicsItem. You don't need to modify the painter object, simply reimplement QGraphicsItem::paint().