how can i rotate a text ?

[savaliya_ambani]

Hi,all

I am haveing a push button on which i want to print a text which is a 90* rotated.

i have tried using the QPainterPath and QPainter class as below.

QFont Times("times","30");
QPainter *painter;
QMatrix mat;
QPainterPath path,newpath,textpath;

textpath.addText(30,70,Times,tr('rotated TEXT"));
mat.rotate(90);
newpath.addPath(mat.map(textpath));
painter->drwaPath(newpath);


but its giving me 2 error:
(1)QPainter:Widget ,painting can only begin as a result og paint event;
(2)QPOinter ainter is not active


I have read the earlier problem like this ,but i am not able to find out the partilcular souluition.
please help.thanks to all.

[savaliya_ambani]

hellow,

No boy knows?please reply any one,i got stucked with my work.i am a newbie ,i dont know much about this.

i got success entering into the QPaintEvent() fucntion ,but its giving me errors like:

Painter is not active.
painter save/restore unbalanced .

Plese help.

[aamer4yu]

u havent assigned *painter to anything.
Whats ur latest code ?

You just need to override the paintEvent of the label.
and you need to rotate the painter...not path..

[savaliya_ambani]

yah thanks.

I have tried this but still i am getting an error :

this time only one aint event can only begin as a result of painting.
The problem is that it is not entering into the PaintEvent(QPaintEvent *) function.
i have given simple qDebug("printf"); its not showing me this printf. i dont know how can i
do this.

can any one have little code which can rotate a simple text with the QPainter.It will be
better if i got as a function.

Thanks in advance.

[high_flyer]

the method name is wrong, it should be paintEvent() not PaintEvent().

[savaliya_ambani]

yah, its paintEvent not PaintEvent.

i have written the code like this.

Widget:aintEvent(QPaintEvent *)
{

qDebug("enterd into the paintEvent");

QFont Times("times","30");
QPainter *painter;
QMatrix mat;
QPainterPath newpath,textpath;

textpath.addText(30,70,Times,tr('rotated TEXT"));
mat.rotate(90);
newpath.addPath(mat.map(textpath));
painter->drawPath(newpath);

}

My main class is the Widget and is derived from QWidget.

now can any one tell me how can i enter into the above function? please...
i just want to rotate text,but i dont know how and when it enters into the function shown above.

there is no error.
when i compile my application,it gives some messages as below:
QPainter::begin:Widget painting can only be started as result of paint event.
what is this?and what is the solution ?


Thanking you.

[high_flyer]

paintEvent() is an event handler.
You are not supposed to call it your self, Qt calls it when it has to be called.
Just showing the widget will run the paintEvent() code.
And you forgot to initialize your painter.
It is also better to allocate the QPainter on the stack so:

QPainter painter(this);

QPainter painter(this);

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This way, begin() is implicitly called, and the painter object gets destroyed at the end of the function.
And you don't need to use the matrix, QPainter can rotate for you.
Have a look at the QPainter docs.

[savaliya_ambani]

thanks,this has removed my error:

But still its not displaying any thing like roated text or roiginal text into my screen.

can u please specify me what should i (what code ,any thing little code which can display a text) i write into
the Main function? or into the parent class function.My qDebug inside a paintEvent is allso not gets printed.

i mean to ask ,what should i do now to display the rotated text,what ever i have done is not showing me any thing.
can u give me some little code,so that i can run it and understand how does the event gets handled in qt

Thank you veru much.

[high_flyer]

As it was said before me:
You have to Subclass Qlabel and re-implement the QLabel:aintEvent().

That is all.

If you have a QLabel that you can see when you run the application, reimplementing its paintEvent() should work too.

You might want to have a look at the libqext, they implemented such a QLabel which you can use.

[savaliya_ambani]

thank you all,

its working.

I have build my own class from Q Widget and write a constructor which takes argument as a QPainterPath and QWidget.
i have also set the rotation angle to 90* into that.

When something changes into the screen it gets entered into the :aintEvent. And i am rotating the received object to the rotation-angle defined above.