Need help with the QGraphicsView and QGraphicsScene

[ayanda83]

Hi there, I am developing an application for designing pamphlets, something like in the attached picture. So I thought the best approach to this would be a QGaphicsView and QGraphicsScene. The scene is going to be as big as an A3 page but I want the view to focus on a certain portion of the scene until the user clicks on a button to move on to the next page. I want the scene to be subdivided into four A5 pages and the view’s job is to focus on one page at a time until the next A5 potion of the scene is requested. I need somebody to point me in the right direction and maybe if there is an easier way of doing this that I am not away of. And the final question is, "after all is done, is it then possible to print the QGraphicsScene as a pdf or a jpg because the ultimate goal of this application is to create a pamphlet that must be printed" .

thanking you in advance.

Added after 1 17 minutes:

Guys is there any other active Qt forum where one can ask questions besides this one?

[d_stranz]

Point you in the right direction

So what are you asking us to do? Design your entire application for you? You haven't actually asked any specific question as far as I can tell. The Qt documentation has plenty of information on how to use the graphics / view system, and there are numerous examples in the Qt distribution. Have you looked at them?

[ayanda83]

@d_stranz I did not say I wanted somebody to design the whole application for me. All I did was to give the way I plan on tackling this project and then I asked for input as to whether it's the correct approach or not, If not I asked if there is an easier way but I did not ask for somebody to design the whole application for me. Teach yourself to read the post carefully before you respond with useless text.

[d_stranz]

I did read your post carefully. What I read was a confused bunch of rambling about paper sizes and button clicking, along with a screen shot of what appears to be a commercial app that you apparently want to copy.

To answer your non-question: Of course you can use the Graphics / View architecture for this. You can also do it without using the Graphics / View architecture - e.g. QImage and the rest of the QWidget GUI. What's the best choice? As far as I can see, there is nothing in the screenshot that can't be easily done with QMainWindow, QSplitter, and a custom image display widget, one for each copy of the modified widget. There are ImageViewer, Scribble, and other examples in the Qt distribution that describe working with QImage.

[wysota]

If you tell us more about the application then we can try to suggest something. But with such a generic description I agree with d_stranz -- we can only give you a generic answer that there is more than one way to do it.