[Qt-interest] trying to rotate ellipse

[Sean Harmer]

On Friday 18 March 2011 12:11:13 caius ligarius wrote:
> Hi I am trying to rotate and ellipse using qpainter rotate fucntion but
> doesn't seem to work. Here is the code I use-
> 
> angle: ellipse orientation(0 to 360 degrees)
> cenX, cenY: ellipse centre x,y
> mjAxis, minAxis: major and minor axis of ellipse
> 
>         QPen p;
> p.setColor(color);
> p.setWidth(2);
> painter.setPen(p);
> painter.drawEllipse(QPoint(cenX, cenY), majAxis, minAxis);
> painter.rotate(angle);
> painter.restore();
> 
> It draws ellipse but doesn't rotate it by "angle" degrees, any ideas?

You need to rotate the painter before you draw the ellipse. It is too late to 
rotate it once it has already been drawn.

Sean