transparency in colormap, still don't get it!

[qt_gotcha]

well, as far as I can see the code does not deal with alpha levels in those functions. Everything is done for RGB values only (using the dev trunc code), adding of color stops, interpolating between stops etc. The effect I see is that what should be transparent is black. I'll see if I can experiments with the code a bit.
But if I add some alpha provision, then also the rendering should do that and that is a bit deeper in the code...

[Uwe]

well, as far as I can see the code does not deal with alpha levels in those functions.

Yes, so the first interpolated value will be an opaque value close to ( 0, 0, 0 ). This is probably not what you want, but does it explain what you see ?

What about overloading QwtLinearColorMap instead of using transparency for the stops:

class YourColorMap: public QwtLinearColorMap
{
   virtual QRgb rgb( const QwtInterval &interval, double value ) const
   {
       if ( value == ... )
           return qRgba( 0, 0, 0, 0 );
 
       return QwtLinearColorMap::rgb( interval, value );
};

class YourColorMap: public QwtLinearColorMap
{
   virtual QRgb rgb( const QwtInterval &interval, double value ) const
   {
       if ( value == ... )
           return qRgba( 0, 0, 0, 0 );

       return QwtLinearColorMap::rgb( interval, value );
};

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Uwe

[jesse_mark]

Where u able to get the transparency in colormap ???
please let us know how you did that.

Thank you so much.

[Alekon]

Hi all,

also interesting of spectrograms transparency. This solution (Uwe's idea above) works:

class QwtTransparentLinearColorMap : public QwtLinearColorMap
{
	typedef QwtLinearColorMap Base;
 
public:
	virtual QRgb rgb(const QwtInterval& interval, double value) const
	{
		QRgb result = Base::rgb(interval, value);
		result = (result & 0x00FFFFFF) | 0x7F000000;  // semi-transparent
		return result;
	}
};

class QwtTransparentLinearColorMap : public QwtLinearColorMap
{
	typedef QwtLinearColorMap Base;

public:
	virtual QRgb rgb(const QwtInterval& interval, double value) const
	{
		QRgb result = Base::rgb(interval, value);
		result = (result & 0x00FFFFFF) | 0x7F000000;  // semi-transparent
		return result;
	}
};

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[Uwe]

Note that there is also: QwtPlotRasterItem::setAlpha(). The advantage of using this is that you can modify the alpha value without having to re-render the image. Advantage of your code is, that the alpha value is part of the cached image and when drawing the image from the cache the cycle for updating the alpha value can be avoided.

So when you need to do something like with the slider of the spectrogram example QwtPlotRasterItem::setAlpha(), might be better. Otherwise your code might be faster ( if this matters ).

Uwe