[Qt-interest] painting widgets in console applications?

[Christian Dähn]

Hi,

I'm doing comparable stuff with Qt console apps.

My app uses QImage as paint device and QPainter to draw directly
into the image. The cool thing with paint devices is: they are all
compatible and can be replaced by QPrinter, QPixmap, QImage and so on.

For console apps you cannot use QPixmap - because under linux/unix
it relies on a X11 specific data type and thus needs X11 to be running.
I use QImage instead and create QApplication with gui disabled flag.

Please don't use QPixmap for generic painting operations, which are not
only for gui output - use QImage instead - this format is more generic and
is much easier to use for all output devices (image file, printer, gui, streams).

Best regards,
Christian Dähn