[Qt-interest] QTransform SRT order (bug?)

[Joshua Grauman]

I guess this is expected behavior according to a response that I received, 
but it should be documented that when you do the scale, translate, rotate 
operations, it does them in reverse order...

Josh

> I am still working with Qt 4.6.3 and result are  correct there.
> Are you sure you are no confused by screen coordinate system?
>
> http://doc.qt.nokia.com/latest/coordsys.html
>
> Alex
>
>
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> From: qt-interest-bounces+alex=wai.com at qt.nokia.com [mailto:qt-interest-bounces+alex=wai.com at qt.nokia.com] On Behalf Of Joshua Grauman
> Sent: Monday, June 06, 2011 11:11 PM
> To: qt-interest at qt.nokia.com
> Subject: Re: [Qt-interest] QTransform SRT order (bug?) (fwd)
>
> Just for the record, this does seem to be a clear bug. Can someone confirm? It is doing the operations (scale and rotate in this case) in reverse order. If you swap the order of operations, you get the expected result, and visa-verca.
> I got the same (incorrect) result with both Qt 4.7.1 and the 4.8tp... Thanks.
>
> Josh
>
>> Maybe someone can help clarify for me, but this seems like a bug to me.
>> Here's a complete Qt program. I do a scale first, and then a rotate. I
>> start with a square, and then scale it to a rectangle. After I rotate
>> it though, the angles are clearly not at 90 degrees. I would have
>> assumed that I was just rotating my rectangle. What's going on here? Is this a bug? Thanks!
>>
>> Josh
>>
>> #include <QImage>
>> #include <QPainter>
>> #include <QTransform>
>> #include <QRect>
>>
>> int main(int argc, char *argv[])
>> {
>>  QRect org(0,0,100,100);
>>  org.moveCenter(QPoint(0,0));
>>  QTransform trans;
>>  trans.scale(.8,.4);
>>  trans.rotate(45.0);
>>  QPolygon gon=trans.mapToPolygon(org);  QImage
>> img(400,400,QImage::Format_ARGB32);
>>  QPainter p(&img);
>>  p.translate(200,200);
>>  p.drawPolygon(gon);
>>  img.save("test.png");
>> }
>>
>>
>>>> From qgraphicsitem_p.h
>>>
>>> QTransform computedFullTransform(QTransform *postmultiplyTransform =
>>> 0) const
>>>
>>>    {
>>>
>>>        if (onlyTransform) {
>>>
>>>            if (!postmultiplyTransform ||
>>> postmultiplyTransform->isIdentity())
>>>
>>>                return transform;
>>>
>>>            if (transform.isIdentity())
>>>
>>>                return *postmultiplyTransform;
>>>
>>>            return transform * *postmultiplyTransform;
>>>
>>>        }
>>>
>>>        QTransform x(transform);
>>>
>>>        if (!graphicsTransforms.isEmpty()) {
>>>
>>>            QMatrix4x4 m;
>>>
>>>            for (int i = 0; i < graphicsTransforms.size(); ++i)
>>>
>>>                graphicsTransforms.at(i)->applyTo(&m);
>>>
>>>            x *= m.toTransform();
>>>
>>>        }
>>>
>>>        x.translate(xOrigin, yOrigin);
>>>
>>>        x.rotate(rotation);
>>>
>>>        x.scale(scale, scale);
>>>
>>>        x.translate(-xOrigin, -yOrigin);
>>>
>>>        if (postmultiplyTransform)
>>>
>>>            x *= *postmultiplyTransform;
>>>
>>>        return x;
>>>
>>>    }
>>>
>>>
>>> 2011/6/3 Malyushytsky, Alex <alex at wai.com>
>>>
>>>>>> doesn't matter what order the
>>>> QTransform::scale(), QTransform::rotate(), and
>>>> QTransform::translate() functions are called in, does it?
>>>>
>>>> Yes it does.
>>>> It uses matrix operation and stores transformation matrix.
>>>> http://doc.qt.nokia.com/latest/qtransform.html#basic-matrix-operatio
>>>> ns
>>>>
>>>> Think it this way if you move rectangle from the center of the
>>>> origin along x axis and rotate it
>>>> 45 degrees around origin will not be equal to rotating it first and
>>>> then moving.
>>>>
>>>>    Alex
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: qt-interest-bounces+alex=wai.com at qt.nokia.com [mailto:
>>>> qt-interest-bounces+alex=wai.com at qt.nokia.com] On Behalf Of Joshua
>>>> qt-interest-bounces+Grauman
>>>> Sent: Friday, June 03, 2011 10:13 AM
>>>> To: qt-interest at qt.nokia.com
>>>> Subject: [Qt-interest] QTransform SRT order
>>>>
>>>> Hello all,
>>>>
>>>> I am using QTransform to Scale, Rotate, and Translate an image. I
>>>> was wondering about the order of these operations. I'm assuming that
>>>> QTransform operates in the order of: Scale, then Rotate, then Translate.
>>>> Can anyone confirm this? It doesn't matter what order the
>>>> QTransform::scale(), QTransform::rotate(), and
>>>> QTransform::translate() functions are called in, does it? Thanks!
>>>>
>>>> Josh
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