calling paintEvent() of the super class

[Cruz]

Hi!

So I have overridden paintEvent() of a QFrame and I can paint what I want, but now I can do ONLY what I want. Things like background color, borders and corners are missing. Don't I have to somehow call super.paintEvent() first? How do I do that?

Thanks
Cruz

[spirit]

did you try something like this?

void MyFrame::paintEvent(QPaintEvent *event)
{
    QFrame::paintEvent(event);
    //then you can draw what you need
    ....
}

void MyFrame::paintEvent(QPaintEvent *event)
{
    QFrame::paintEvent(event);
    //then you can draw what you need
    ....
}

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[SimoneQt]

Hi!

So I have overridden paintEvent() of a QFrame and I can paint what I want, but now I can do ONLY what I want. Things like background color, borders and corners are missing. Don't I have to somehow call super.paintEvent() first? How do I do that?

Thanks
Cruz

You have to draw the primitive element and then you draw what you want.

QStyleOption opt;
opt.init(this);
QPainter p(this);
style()->drawPrimitive(QStyle::PE_Widget, &opt, &painter, this);

QStyleOption opt;
opt.init(this);
QPainter p(this);
style()->drawPrimitive(QStyle::PE_Widget, &opt, &painter, this);

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