[PySide] how to drawing pixmap into header view

[Frank Rueter | OHUfx]

hold the line... you were right!
The base call to painter kills the state of the painter, so I needed to 
save the painter before the base call, then restore it afterwards, then 
draw my pixmap. I did in the wrong order before.

Thanks!

frank

On 13/05/18 8:58 PM, Frank Rueter | OHUfx wrote:
> Thanks Chris,
>
> tried painter.save() and painter.restore() before and after my 
> painting the pixmap but to no avail.
>
> frank
>
> On 13/05/18 8:43 PM, Christian Gagneraud wrote:
>> On 13 May 2018 at 17:53, Frank Rueter | OHUfx <frank at ohufx.com> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I am trying to paint a simple icon into a header view without losing 
>>> it’s default look.
>>>
>>> I thought this would do it:
>>>
>>> class SequenceHeaderView(QtWidgets.QHeaderView):
>>>      def paintSection(self, painter, rect, logicalIndex):
>>>          super(SequenceHeaderView, self).paintSection(painter, rect, 
>>> logicalIndex)
>>>          painter.drawPixmap(rect.topLeft(), QtGui.QPixmap(pixmap_path)
>> I'm no expert, but maybe it has to do with the painter state, or
>> something along these lines.
>> Maybe you need to call saveState/restoreState?
>>
>> My 2 cents.
>>
>> Chris
>>
>>
>>> However, this will not draw the pixmap.
>>>
>>> If I do NOT call super(...).paintSection(...) it will draw the icon 
>>> but obviously lose all it’s default look.
>>> What am I missing?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> frank
>>>
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