[Interest] Poor retina support for QGraphicsView on macOS?

Patrick Stinson patrickkidd at gmail.com
Sat Oct 7 19:36:02 CEST 2017


Interesting. Can you suggest a sample size, or perhaps give a code example? I’m sure how this works. Thanks!

> On Oct 7, 2017, at 10:01 AM, Jean-Michaël Celerier <jeanmichael.celerier at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Don't do that and the anti-aliasing will work.
> 
> Or alternatively enable GL antialiasing for instance by using QSurfaceFormat::setSamples (http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qsurfaceformat.html#setSamples) and passing the format to your GL viewport. However this ends up being quite slow on retina display in my experience.
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> Jean-Michaël Celerier
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>> On Sat, Oct 7, 2017 at 10:09 AM, Christian Gagneraud <chgans at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 7 October 2017 at 16:11, Patrick Stinson <patrickkidd at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hello!
>> >
>> > I am seeing the antialiasing is still quite grainy using a QGraphicsView on mac. Is it possible to increase the device pixel ratio, or something similar?
>> >
>> > See attached screenshots, expanding to full rez before viewing. Note smoothness of retina button pixmaps at left VS jagged lines in middle.
>> >
>> > I am using a QOpenGLWidget for the viewport (though this doesn’t seem to matter):
>> 
>> I vaguely remember that anti-aliasing doesn't work with an OpenGL view
>> (that was on a Linux machine).
>> 
>> > view.setViewport(QOpenGLWidget())
>> 
>> Don't do that and the anti-aliasing will work.
>> 
>> Chris
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>> >
>> > I am painting QPainterPaths like this:
>> >
>> > def paint(self, painter, option, widget):
>> >     painter.save()
>> >     painter.setPen(self.pen)
>> >     painter.setBrush(self.brush)
>> >     painter.drawPath(self.path)
>> >     painter.restore()
>> >
>> > with the following render hints:
>> >
>> > view.setRenderHints(QPainter.Antialiasing|QPainter.HighQualityAntialiasing|QPainter.SmoothPixmapTransform|QPainter.TextAntialiasing)
>> >
>> > and the following attribute set on the QApplication:
>> >
>> > app.setAttribute(Qt.AA_UseHighDpiPixmaps, True)
>> >
>> > Thanks!
>> > -P
>> >
>> >
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