# QwtPlotSpectrogram Class Reference

A plot item, which displays a spectrogram. More...

`#include <qwt_plot_spectrogram.h>`

Inheritance diagram for QwtPlotSpectrogram:
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List of all members.

## Public Types

enum | CachePolicy { NoCache, PaintCache, ScreenCache }
enum | DisplayMode { ImageMode = 1, ContourMode = 2 }
enum | ItemAttribute { Legend = 1, AutoScale = 2 }
enum | RenderHint { RenderAntialiased = 1 }
enum | RttiValues { Rtti_PlotItem = 0, Rtti_PlotGrid, Rtti_PlotScale, Rtti_PlotMarker, Rtti_PlotCurve, Rtti_PlotHistogram, Rtti_PlotSpectrogram, Rtti_PlotSVG, Rtti_PlotUserItem = 1000 }

## Public Member Functions

int | alpha () const
void | attach (QwtPlot *plot)
virtual QwtDoubleRect | boundingRect () const
CachePolicy | cachePolicy () const
const QwtColorMap & | colorMap () const
QwtValueList | contourLevels () const
virtual QPen | contourPen (double level) const
const QwtRasterData & | data () const
QPen | defaultContourPen () const
void | detach ()
virtual void | draw (QPainter *p, const QwtScaleMap &xMap, const QwtScaleMap &yMap, const QRect &rect) const
void | hide ()
void | invalidateCache ()
QwtDoubleRect | invTransform (const QwtScaleMap &, const QwtScaleMap &, const QRect &) const
bool | isVisible () const
virtual void | itemChanged ()
virtual QWidget * | legendItem () const
QRect | paintRect (const QwtScaleMap &, const QwtScaleMap &) const
QwtPlot * | plot () const
| QwtPlotSpectrogram (const QString &title=QString::null)
virtual QSize | rasterHint (const QwtDoubleRect &) const
virtual int | rtti () const
QwtDoubleRect | scaleRect (const QwtScaleMap &, const QwtScaleMap &) const
void | setAlpha (int alpha)
void | setAxis (int xAxis, int yAxis)
void | setCachePolicy (CachePolicy)
void | setColorMap (const QwtColorMap &)
void | setConrecAttribute (QwtRasterData::ConrecAttribute, bool on)
void | setContourLevels (const QwtValueList &)
void | setData (const QwtRasterData &data)
void | setDefaultContourPen (const QPen &)
void | setDisplayMode (DisplayMode, bool on=true)
void | setItemAttribute (ItemAttribute, bool on=true)
void | setRenderHint (RenderHint, bool on=true)
void | setTitle (const QwtText &title)
void | setTitle (const QString &title)
virtual void | setVisible (bool)
void | setXAxis (int axis)
void | setYAxis (int axis)
void | setZ (double z)
void | show ()
bool | testConrecAttribute (QwtRasterData::ConrecAttribute) const
bool | testDisplayMode (DisplayMode) const
bool | testItemAttribute (ItemAttribute) const
bool | testRenderHint (RenderHint) const
const QwtText & | title () const
QRect | transform (const QwtScaleMap &, const QwtScaleMap &, const QwtDoubleRect &) const
virtual void | updateLegend (QwtLegend *) const
virtual void | updateScaleDiv (const QwtScaleDiv &, const QwtScaleDiv &)
int | xAxis () const
int | yAxis () const
double | z () const
virtual | ~QwtPlotSpectrogram ()

## Protected Member Functions

virtual QSize | contourRasterSize (const QwtDoubleRect &, const QRect &) const
virtual void | drawContourLines (QPainter *p, const QwtScaleMap &xMap, const QwtScaleMap &yMap, const QwtRasterData::ContourLines &lines) const
virtual QwtRasterData::ContourLines | renderContourLines (const QwtDoubleRect &rect, const QSize &raster) const
virtual QImage | renderImage (const QwtScaleMap &xMap, const QwtScaleMap &yMap, const QwtDoubleRect &rect) const

## Detailed Description

A plot item, which displays a spectrogram.

A spectrogram displays threedimenional data, where the 3rd dimension ( the intensity ) is displayed using colors. The colors are calculated from the values using a color map.

In ContourMode contour lines are painted for the contour levels.

See also:
  QwtRasterData, QwtColorMap

## Member Enumeration Documentation

enum QwtPlotRasterItem::CachePolicy `[inherited]`

- NoCache
  renderImage() is called, whenever the item has to be repainted
- PaintCache
  renderImage() is called, whenever the image cache is not valid, or the scales, or the size of the canvas has changed. This type of cache is only useful for improving the performance of hide/show operations. All other situations are already handled by the plot canvas cache.
- ScreenCache
  The screen cache is an image in size of the screen. As long as the scales don't change the target image is scaled from the cache. This might improve the performance when resizing the plot widget, but suffers from scaling effects.

The default policy is NoCache

enum QwtPlotSpectrogram::DisplayMode

The display mode controls how the raster data will be represented.

- ImageMode
  The values are mapped to colors using a color map.
- ContourMode
  The data is displayed using contour lines

When both modes are enabled the contour lines are painted on top of the spectrogram. The default setting enables ImageMode.

See also:
  setDisplayMode(), testDisplayMode()

enum QwtPlotItem::ItemAttribute `[inherited]`

Plot Item Attributes

- Legend
  The item is represented on the legend.
- AutoScale
  The boundingRect() of the item is included in the autoscaling calculation.

See also:
  setItemAttribute(), testItemAttribute()

enum QwtPlotItem::RenderHint `[inherited]`

Render hints.

enum QwtPlotItem::RttiValues `[inherited]`

Runtime type information.

RttiValues is used to cast plot items, without having to enable runtime type information of the compiler.

## Constructor & Destructor Documentation

QwtPlotSpectrogram::QwtPlotSpectrogram | ( | const QString & | title = `QString::null` | ) | `[explicit]`

Sets the following item attributes:

- QwtPlotItem::AutoScale: true
- QwtPlotItem::Legend: false

The z value is initialized by 8.0.

Parameters:

  title | Title

See also:
  QwtPlotItem::setItemAttribute(), QwtPlotItem::setZ()

QwtPlotSpectrogram::~QwtPlotSpectrogram | ( |  | ) | `[virtual]`

Destructor.

## Member Function Documentation

int QwtPlotRasterItem::alpha | ( |  | ) | const`[inherited]`

Returns:
  Alpha value of the raster item

See also:
  setAlpha()

void QwtPlotItem::attach | ( | QwtPlot * | plot | ) | `[inherited]`

Attach the item to a plot.

This method will attach a QwtPlotItem to the QwtPlot argument. It will first detach the QwtPlotItem from any plot from a previous call to attach (if necessary). If a NULL argument is passed, it will detach from any QwtPlot it was attached to.

Parameters:

  plot | Plot widget

See also:
  QwtPlotItem::detach()

QwtDoubleRect QwtPlotSpectrogram::boundingRect | ( |  | ) | const`[virtual]`

Returns:
  Bounding rect of the data

See also:
  QwtRasterData::boundingRect()

Reimplemented from QwtPlotItem.

QwtPlotRasterItem::CachePolicy QwtPlotRasterItem::cachePolicy | ( |  | ) | const`[inherited]`

Returns:
  Cache policy

See also:
  CachePolicy, setCachePolicy()

const QwtColorMap & QwtPlotSpectrogram::colorMap | ( |  | ) | const

Returns:
  Color Map used for mapping the intensity values to colors

See also:
  setColorMap()

QwtValueList QwtPlotSpectrogram::contourLevels | ( |  | ) | const

Return the levels of the contour lines.

The levels are sorted in increasing order.

See also:
  contourLevels(), renderContourLines(), QwtRasterData::contourLines()

QPen QwtPlotSpectrogram::contourPen | ( | double | level | ) | const`[virtual]`

Calculate the pen for a contour line.

The color of the pen is the color for level calculated by the color map

Parameters:

  level | Contour level

Returns:
  Pen for the contour line

Note:
  contourPen is only used if defaultContourPen().style() == Qt::NoPen

See also:
  setDefaultContourPen(), setColorMap(), setContourLevels()

QSize QwtPlotSpectrogram::contourRasterSize | ( | const QwtDoubleRect & | area,
|  | const QRect & | rect
| ) |  | const`[protected, virtual]`

Return the raster to be used by the CONREC contour algorithm.

A larger size will improve the precisision of the CONREC algorithm, but will slow down the time that is needed to calculate the lines.

The default implementation returns rect.size() / 2 bounded to data().rasterHint().

Parameters:

  area | Rect, where to calculate the contour lines
  rect | Rect in pixel coordinates, where to paint the contour lines

Returns:
  Raster to be used by the CONREC contour algorithm.

Note:
  The size will be bounded to rect.size().

See also:
  drawContourLines(), QwtRasterData::contourLines()

const QwtRasterData & QwtPlotSpectrogram::data | ( |  | ) | const

Returns:
  Spectrogram data

See also:
  setData()

QPen QwtPlotSpectrogram::defaultContourPen | ( |  | ) | const

Returns:
  Default contour pen

See also:
  setDefaultContourPen()

void QwtPlotItem::detach | ( |  | ) | `[inline, inherited]`

This method detaches a QwtPlotItem from any QwtPlot it has been associated with.

detach() is equivalent to calling attach( NULL )

See also:
  attach( QwtPlot* plot )

void QwtPlotSpectrogram::draw | ( | QPainter * | painter,
|  | const QwtScaleMap & | xMap,
|  | const QwtScaleMap & | yMap,
|  | const QRect & | canvasRect
| ) |  | const`[virtual]`

Draw the spectrogram.

Parameters:

  painter | Painter
  xMap | Maps x-values into pixel coordinates.
  yMap | Maps y-values into pixel coordinates.
  canvasRect | Contents rect of the canvas in painter coordinates

See also:
  setDisplayMode(), renderImage(), QwtPlotRasterItem::draw(), drawContourLines()

Reimplemented from QwtPlotRasterItem.

void QwtPlotSpectrogram::drawContourLines | ( | QPainter * | painter,
|  | const QwtScaleMap & | xMap,
|  | const QwtScaleMap & | yMap,
|  | const QwtRasterData::ContourLines & | contourLines
| ) |  | const`[protected, virtual]`

Paint the contour lines

Parameters:

  painter | Painter
  xMap | Maps x-values into pixel coordinates.
  yMap | Maps y-values into pixel coordinates.
  contourLines | Contour lines

See also:
  renderContourLines(), defaultContourPen(), contourPen()

void QwtPlotItem::hide | ( |  | ) | `[inherited]`

Hide the item.

void QwtPlotRasterItem::invalidateCache | ( |  | ) | `[inherited]`

Invalidate the paint cache

See also:
  setCachePolicy()

QwtDoubleRect QwtPlotItem::invTransform | ( | const QwtScaleMap & | xMap,
|  | const QwtScaleMap & | yMap,
|  | const QRect & | rect
| ) |  | const`[inherited]`

Transform a rectangle from paint to scale coordinates

Parameters:

  xMap | X map
  yMap | Y map
  rect | Rectangle in paint coordinates

Returns:
  Rectangle in scale coordinates

See also:
  transform()

bool QwtPlotItem::isVisible | ( |  | ) | const`[inherited]`

Returns:
  true if visible

See also:
  setVisible(), show(), hide()

void QwtPlotItem::itemChanged | ( |  | ) | `[virtual, inherited]`

Update the legend and call QwtPlot::autoRefresh for the parent plot.

See also:
  updateLegend()

QWidget * QwtPlotItem::legendItem | ( |  | ) | const`[virtual, inherited]`

Allocate the widget that represents the item on the legend.

The default implementation is made for QwtPlotCurve and returns a QwtLegendItem(), but an item could be represented by any type of widget, by overloading legendItem() and updateLegend().

Returns:
  QwtLegendItem()

See also:
  updateLegend() QwtLegend()

Implements QwtLegendItemManager.

QRect QwtPlotItem::paintRect | ( | const QwtScaleMap & | xMap,
|  | const QwtScaleMap & | yMap
| ) |  | const`[inherited]`

Calculate the bounding paint rect of 2 maps.

Parameters:

  xMap | X map
  yMap | X map

Returns:
  Bounding rect of the scale maps

QwtPlot * QwtPlotItem::plot | ( |  | ) | const`[inherited]`

Return attached plot.

QSize QwtPlotSpectrogram::rasterHint | ( | const QwtDoubleRect & | rect | ) | const`[virtual]`

Returns the recommended raster for a given rect.

F.e the raster hint is used to limit the resolution of the image that is rendered.

Parameters:

  rect | Rect for the raster hint

Returns:
  data().rasterHint(rect)

Reimplemented from QwtPlotRasterItem.

QwtRasterData::ContourLines QwtPlotSpectrogram::renderContourLines | ( | const QwtDoubleRect & | rect,
|  | const QSize & | raster
| ) |  | const`[protected, virtual]`

Calculate contour lines

Parameters:

  rect | Rectangle, where to calculate the contour lines
  raster | Raster, used by the CONREC algorithm

See also:
  contourLevels(), setConrecAttribute(), QwtRasterData::contourLines()

QImage QwtPlotSpectrogram::renderImage | ( | const QwtScaleMap & | xMap,
|  | const QwtScaleMap & | yMap,
|  | const QwtDoubleRect & | area
| ) |  | const`[protected, virtual]`

Render an image from the data and color map.

The area is translated into a rect of the paint device. For each pixel of this rect the intensity is mapped into a color.

Parameters:

  xMap | X-Scale Map
  yMap | Y-Scale Map
  area | Area that should be rendered in scale coordinates.

Returns:
  A QImage::Format_Indexed8 or QImage::Format_ARGB32 depending on the color map.

See also:
  QwtRasterData::intensity(), QwtColorMap::rgb(), QwtColorMap::colorIndex()

Implements QwtPlotRasterItem.

int QwtPlotSpectrogram::rtti | ( |  | ) | const`[virtual]`

Returns:
  QwtPlotItem::Rtti_PlotSpectrogram

Reimplemented from QwtPlotItem.

QwtDoubleRect QwtPlotItem::scaleRect | ( | const QwtScaleMap & | xMap,
|  | const QwtScaleMap & | yMap
| ) |  | const`[inherited]`

Calculate the bounding scale rect of 2 maps.

Parameters:

  xMap | X map
  yMap | X map

Returns:
  Bounding rect of the scale maps

void QwtPlotRasterItem::setAlpha | ( | int | alpha | ) | `[inherited]`

Set an alpha value for the raster data.

Often a plot has several types of raster data organized in layers. ( f.e a geographical map, with weather statistics ). Using setAlpha() raster items can be stacked easily.

The alpha value is a value [0, 255] to control the transparency of the image. 0 represents a fully transparent color, while 255 represents a fully opaque color.

Parameters:

  alpha | Alpha value

- alpha >= 0
  All alpha values of the pixels returned by renderImage() will be set to alpha, beside those with an alpha value of 0 (invalid pixels).
- alpha < 0 The alpha values returned by renderImage() are not changed.

The default alpha value is -1.

See also:
  alpha()

void QwtPlotItem::setAxis | ( | int | xAxis,
|  | int | yAxis
| ) |  | `[inherited]`

Set X and Y axis

The item will painted according to the coordinates its Axes.

Parameters:

  xAxis | X Axis
  yAxis | Y Axis

See also:
  setXAxis(), setYAxis(), xAxis(), yAxis()

void QwtPlotRasterItem::setCachePolicy | ( | QwtPlotRasterItem::CachePolicy | policy | ) | `[inherited]`

Change the cache policy

The default policy is NoCache

Parameters:

  policy | Cache policy

See also:
  CachePolicy, cachePolicy()

void QwtPlotSpectrogram::setColorMap | ( | const QwtColorMap & | colorMap | ) |

Change the color map

Often it is useful to display the mapping between intensities and colors as an additional plot axis, showing a color bar.

Parameters:

  colorMap | Color Map

See also:
  colorMap(), QwtScaleWidget::setColorBarEnabled(), QwtScaleWidget::setColorMap()

void QwtPlotSpectrogram::setConrecAttribute | ( | QwtRasterData::ConrecAttribute | attribute,
|  | bool | on
| ) |  |

Modify an attribute of the CONREC algorithm, used to calculate the contour lines.

Parameters:

  attribute | CONREC attribute
  on | On/Off

See also:
  testConrecAttribute(), renderContourLines(), QwtRasterData::contourLines()

void QwtPlotSpectrogram::setContourLevels | ( | const QwtValueList & | levels | ) |

Set the levels of the contour lines

Parameters:

  levels | Values of the contour levels

See also:
  contourLevels(), renderContourLines(), QwtRasterData::contourLines()

Note:
  contourLevels returns the same levels but sorted.

void QwtPlotSpectrogram::setData | ( | const QwtRasterData & | data | ) |

Set the data to be displayed

Parameters:

  data | Spectrogram Data

See also:
  data()

void QwtPlotSpectrogram::setDefaultContourPen | ( | const QPen & | pen | ) |

Set the default pen for the contour lines.

If the spectrogram has a valid default contour pen a contour line is painted using the default contour pen. Otherwise (pen.style() == Qt::NoPen) the pen is calculated for each contour level using contourPen().

See also:
  defaultContourPen(), contourPen()

void QwtPlotSpectrogram::setDisplayMode | ( | DisplayMode | mode,
|  | bool | on = `true`
| ) |  |

The display mode controls how the raster data will be represented.

Parameters:

  mode | Display mode
  on | On/Off

The default setting enables ImageMode.

See also:
  DisplayMode, displayMode()

void QwtPlotItem::setItemAttribute | ( | ItemAttribute | attribute,
|  | bool | on = `true`
| ) |  | `[inherited]`

Toggle an item attribute

Parameters:

  attribute | Attribute type
  on | true/false

See also:
  testItemAttribute(), ItemAttribute

void QwtPlotItem::setRenderHint | ( | RenderHint | hint,
|  | bool | on = `true`
| ) |  | `[inherited]`

Toggle an render hint

Parameters:

  hint | Render hint
  on | true/false

See also:
  testRenderHint(), RenderHint

void QwtPlotItem::setTitle | ( | const QwtText & | title | ) | `[inherited]`

Set a new title

Parameters:

  title | Title

See also:
  title()

void QwtPlotItem::setTitle | ( | const QString & | title | ) | `[inherited]`

Set a new title

Parameters:

  title | Title

See also:
  title()

void QwtPlotItem::setVisible | ( | bool | on | ) | `[virtual, inherited]`

Show/Hide the item

Parameters:

  on | Show if true, otherwise hide

See also:
  isVisible(), show(), hide()

void QwtPlotItem::setXAxis | ( | int | axis | ) | `[inherited]`

Set the X axis

The item will painted according to the coordinates its Axes.

Parameters:

  axis | X Axis

See also:
  setAxis(), setYAxis(), xAxis()

void QwtPlotItem::setYAxis | ( | int | axis | ) | `[inherited]`

Set the Y axis

The item will painted according to the coordinates its Axes.

Parameters:

  axis | Y Axis

See also:
  setAxis(), setXAxis(), yAxis()

void QwtPlotItem::setZ | ( | double | z | ) | `[inherited]`

Set the z value.

Plot items are painted in increasing z-order.

Parameters:

  z | Z-value

See also:
  z(), QwtPlotDict::itemList()

void QwtPlotItem::show | ( |  | ) | `[inherited]`

Show the item.

bool QwtPlotSpectrogram::testConrecAttribute | ( | QwtRasterData::ConrecAttribute | attribute | ) | const

Test an attribute of the CONREC algorithm, used to calculate the contour lines.

Parameters:

  attribute | CONREC attribute

Returns:
  true, is enabled

See also:
  setConrecAttribute(), renderContourLines(), QwtRasterData::contourLines()

bool QwtPlotSpectrogram::testDisplayMode | ( | DisplayMode | mode | ) | const

The display mode controls how the raster data will be represented.

Parameters:

  mode | Display mode

Returns:
  true if mode is enabled

bool QwtPlotItem::testItemAttribute | ( | ItemAttribute | attribute | ) | const`[inherited]`

Test an item attribute

Parameters:

  attribute | Attribute type

Returns:
  true/false

See also:
  setItemAttribute(), ItemAttribute

bool QwtPlotItem::testRenderHint | ( | RenderHint | hint | ) | const`[inherited]`

Test a render hint

Parameters:

  hint | Render hint

Returns:
  true/false

See also:
  setRenderHint(), RenderHint

const QwtText & QwtPlotItem::title | ( |  | ) | const`[inherited]`

Returns:
  Title of the item

See also:
  setTitle()

QRect QwtPlotItem::transform | ( | const QwtScaleMap & | xMap,
|  | const QwtScaleMap & | yMap,
|  | const QwtDoubleRect & | rect
| ) |  | const`[inherited]`

Transform a rectangle

Parameters:

  xMap | X map
  yMap | Y map
  rect | Rectangle in scale coordinates

Returns:
  Rectangle in paint coordinates

See also:
  invTransform()

void QwtPlotItem::updateLegend | ( | QwtLegend * | legend | ) | const`[virtual, inherited]`

Update the widget that represents the item on the legend.

updateLegend() is called from itemChanged() to adopt the widget representing the item on the legend to its new configuration.

The default implementation is made for QwtPlotCurve and updates a QwtLegendItem(), but an item could be represented by any type of widget, by overloading legendItem() and updateLegend().

Parameters:

  legend | Legend

See also:
  legendItem(), itemChanged(), QwtLegend()

Implements QwtLegendItemManager.

Reimplemented in QwtPlotCurve.

void QwtPlotItem::updateScaleDiv | ( | const QwtScaleDiv & | ,
|  | const QwtScaleDiv & |
| ) |  | `[virtual, inherited]`

Update the item to changes of the axes scale division.

Update the item, when the axes of plot have changed. The default implementation does nothing, but items that depend on the scale division (like QwtPlotGrid()) have to reimplement updateScaleDiv()

Parameters:

  xScaleDiv | Scale division of the x-axis
  yScaleDiv | Scale division of the y-axis

See also:
  QwtPlot::updateAxes()

Reimplemented in QwtPlotGrid, and QwtPlotScaleItem.

int QwtPlotItem::xAxis | ( |  | ) | const`[inherited]`

Return xAxis.

int QwtPlotItem::yAxis | ( |  | ) | const`[inherited]`

Return yAxis.

double QwtPlotItem::z | ( |  | ) | const`[inherited]`

Plot items are painted in increasing z-order.

Returns:
  setZ(), QwtPlotDict::itemList()