[Interest] Scaling out of SVG in QGraphicsScene background

[Christian Gagneraud]

On Mon, 25 Feb 2019 at 19:18, Felix Rubio Dalmau via Interest
<interest at qt-project.org> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
>         I am trying to paint a SVG I have on a file on the background of a QGraphicsScene, and I am facing some issues: if I subclass QGraphicsScene and in the __init__ method I add:
>
>                 self.target = QtSvg.QGraphicsSvgItem(target)
>                 rect = self.target.boundingRect()
>                 self.target.setPos(-rect.width()/2, -rect.height()/2)
>                 self.addItem(self.target)
>
>         So that then in my main window I set the QGraphicsView to do a fitInView (the size of the widget is 500x500), via
>
>                 self.ui.targetView.fitInView(self.scene.sceneRect(), QtCore.Qt.KeepAspectRatio)
>
>         The result is what expected: a nice, smooth image.
>
>         However, if I try to draw the SVG on the background of the QGraphicsScene, via:
>
>                 self.renderer = QtSvg.QSvgRenderer(target)
>                 rect = self.renderer.defaultSize()
>                 self.image = QtGui.QImage(rect, QtGui.QImage.Format_ARGB32)
>                 self.painter = QtGui.QPainter(self.image)
>                 self.renderer.render(self.painter)
>                 self.setBackgroundBrush(QtGui.QBrush(self.image))
>                 self.setSceneRect(QtCore.QRectF(QtCore.QPointF(0, 0), QtCore.QSizeF(self.image.size())))
>
>         Without doing the scaling the picture looks OK, but after doing the scaling the picture looks pixelized. How can I fix that?
>         Also, I have observed that I have to set the scene rectangle, while I understood that the scene itself would take care of that?

Maybe you have a caching issue, see
https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qgraphicsview.html#cacheMode-prop
Maybe as well https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qgraphicsscene.html#invalidate could help

Chris

>
>         Thank you for your help!
>         Felix
>
>         PS: for reference, the picture is https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/WA_80_cm_archery_target.svg
>
>
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