After looking around I at least figured out what you meant by instantiate the QPainter by using the QPixmap but now it isn't drawing anything to the pixmap.

The following is what I do for rendering to the pixmap...I think I am missing something..not sure what though:

Qt Code:
  1. QPainter pixMapPainter(&pixMap);
  2. pixMapPainter.setPen(Qt::red);
  3. pixMapPainter.drawPoint(x, y);
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Thanks for the help,
Jon Jones