Qt4 : QPainter::setRedirected doesn't work

[Ankitha Varsha]

Hi,

I am trying to divert the paint operations of a widget to the printer.
But it doesn't seem to work for me.

following is the code.

void print()
{
       QPrinter printer;
    printer.setOutputFormat(QPrinter::PdfFormat);
    printer.setOutputFileName("C:/sample.pdf");
    printer.setPageSize(QPrinter::A4);
 
    QPainter::setRedirected(widget, &printer);
    QPaintEvent pe(this->rect());
    qApp->sendEvent(this, &pe);
    QPainter::restoreRedirected(widget);
    widget->repaint();
}

void print()
{
       QPrinter printer;
    printer.setOutputFormat(QPrinter::PdfFormat);
    printer.setOutputFileName("C:/sample.pdf");
    printer.setPageSize(QPrinter::A4);

    QPainter::setRedirected(widget, &printer);
    QPaintEvent pe(this->rect());
    qApp->sendEvent(this, &pe);
    QPainter::restoreRedirected(widget);
    widget->repaint();
}

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Initially, i used widget->repaint() instead of sendevent(). But didnt work either.

If i query redirected() function on the widget before restoring the redirection , it is correctly showing the redirected device as printer. I wonder still why this code doesn't work!

Am i doing any mistake here?

Pls help

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Ankitha