[Development] matrix math help needed - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-84441

[Edward Welbourne]

Matthew Woehlke (26 May 2020 18:15)
> The documentation is not clear if the scale, rotate, etc. methods of
> QTransform apply *before* or *after* whatever the QTransform is already
> doing. The bug report indicates that they are applied *first*.
>
> Given the potential for breaking existing code which expects the current
> behavior, my inclination would be to clarify the documentation to
> clearly state the existing behavior.

Yes, the docs do need updated; they do correctly say what QTransform does,
but that behaviour managed to confuse me for a while, too.

> (Note: I didn't actually test this myself or look at the code, I am just
> going off of what the bug report says. In any case, however, the
> documentation should be fixed.)

Indeed.  I did test this myself, and was surprised that

    double a = qDegreesToRadians(45.0);
    double sina = qSin(a);
    double cosa = qCos(a);
    QCOMPARE(QTransform().translate(50, 50).rotate(45).scale(0.5, 1.0),
             QTransform(0.5, 0, 0, 1.0, 0, 0)
             * QTransform(cosa, sina, -sina, cosa, 0, 0)
             * QTransform(1, 0, 0, 1, 50.0, 50.0));

passes.  However, once it did, I knew what was going on ...

	Eddy.