# QwtPlotRasterItem Class Reference

A class, which displays raster data. More...

`#include <qwt_plot_rasteritem.h>`

Inheritance diagram for QwtPlotRasterItem:
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List of all members.

## Public Types

enum | CachePolicy { NoCache, PaintCache }
enum | ItemAttribute { Legend = 0x01, AutoScale = 0x02 }
typedef QFlags< ItemAttribute > | ItemAttributes
enum | PaintAttribute { PaintInDeviceResolution = 1 }
typedef QFlags< PaintAttribute > | PaintAttributes
enum | RenderHint { RenderAntialiased = 1 }
typedef QFlags< RenderHint > | RenderHints
enum | RttiValues { Rtti_PlotItem = 0, Rtti_PlotGrid, Rtti_PlotScale, Rtti_PlotMarker, Rtti_PlotCurve, Rtti_PlotSpectroCurve, Rtti_PlotIntervalCurve, Rtti_PlotHistogram, Rtti_PlotSpectrogram, Rtti_PlotSVG, Rtti_PlotUserItem = 1000 }

## Public Member Functions

int | alpha () const
void | attach (QwtPlot *plot)
virtual QRectF | boundingRect () const
CachePolicy | cachePolicy () const
void | detach ()
virtual void | draw (QPainter *p, const QwtScaleMap &xMap, const QwtScaleMap &yMap, const QRectF &rect) const
virtual void | drawLegendIdentifier (QPainter *, const QRectF &) const
void | hide ()
virtual QwtInterval | interval (Qt::Axis) const
void | invalidateCache ()
bool | isVisible () const
virtual void | itemChanged ()
virtual QWidget * | legendItem () const
QRectF | paintRect (const QwtScaleMap &, const QwtScaleMap &) const
virtual QRectF | pixelHint (const QRectF &) const
QwtPlot * | plot () const
| QwtPlotRasterItem (const QwtText &title)
| QwtPlotRasterItem (const QString &title=QString::null)
virtual int | rtti () const
QRectF | scaleRect (const QwtScaleMap &, const QwtScaleMap &) const
void | setAlpha (int alpha)
void | setAxes (int xAxis, int yAxis)
void | setCachePolicy (CachePolicy)
void | setItemAttribute (ItemAttribute, bool on=true)
void | setPaintAttribute (PaintAttribute, 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 | testItemAttribute (ItemAttribute) const
bool | testPaintAttribute (PaintAttribute) const
bool | testRenderHint (RenderHint) const
const QwtText & | title () const
virtual void | updateLegend (QwtLegend *) const
virtual void | updateScaleDiv (const QwtScaleDiv &, const QwtScaleDiv &)
int | xAxis () const
int | yAxis () const
double | z () const
virtual | ~QwtPlotRasterItem ()

## Protected Member Functions

virtual QwtScaleMap | imageMap (Qt::Orientation, const QwtScaleMap &map, const QRectF &area, const QSize &imageSize, double pixelSize) const
virtual QImage | renderImage (const QwtScaleMap &xMap, const QwtScaleMap &yMap, const QRectF &area, const QSize &imageSize) const =0

## Detailed Description

A class, which displays raster data.

Raster data is a grid of pixel values, that can be represented as a QImage. It is used for many types of information like spectrograms, cartograms, geographical maps ...

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.

QwtPlotRasterItem is only implemented for images of the following formats: QImage::Format_Indexed8, QImage::Format_ARGB32.

See also:
  QwtPlotSpectrogram

## Member Typedef Documentation

typedef QFlags<ItemAttribute> QwtPlotItem::ItemAttributes `[inherited]`

Plot Item Attributes.

typedef QFlags<PaintAttribute> QwtPlotRasterItem::PaintAttributes

Paint attributes.

typedef QFlags<RenderHint> QwtPlotItem::RenderHints `[inherited]`

Render hints.

## Member Enumeration Documentation

enum QwtPlotRasterItem::CachePolicy

- 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.

The default policy is NoCache

enum QwtPlotItem::ItemAttribute `[inherited]`

Plot Item Attributes

See also:
  setItemAttribute(), testItemAttribute()

Enumerator:

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

enum QwtPlotRasterItem::PaintAttribute

Attributes to modify the drawing algorithm.

See also:
  setPaintAttribute(), testPaintAttribute()

Enumerator:

  PaintInDeviceResolution

  When the image is rendered according to the data pixels ( QwtRasterData::pixelHint() ) it can be expanded to paint device resolution before it is passed to QPainter. The expansion algorithm rounds the pixel borders in the same way as the axis ticks, what is usually better than the scaling algorithm implemented in Qt. Disabling this flag might make sense, to reduce the size of a document/file. If this is possible for a document format depends on the implementation of the specific QPaintEngine.

enum QwtPlotItem::RenderHint `[inherited]`

Render hints.

Enumerator:

  RenderAntialiased | Enable antialiasing.

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

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

Constructor.

QwtPlotRasterItem::QwtPlotRasterItem | ( | const QwtText & | title | ) | `[explicit]`

Constructor.

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

Destructor.

## Member Function Documentation

int QwtPlotRasterItem::alpha | ( |  | ) | const

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:
  detach()

QRectF QwtPlotRasterItem::boundingRect | ( |  | ) | const`[virtual]`

Returns:
  Bounding rect of the data

See also:
  QwtPlotRasterItem::interval()

Reimplemented from QwtPlotItem.

QwtPlotRasterItem::CachePolicy QwtPlotRasterItem::cachePolicy | ( |  | ) | const

Returns:
  Cache policy

See also:
  CachePolicy, setCachePolicy()

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

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

detach() is equivalent to calling attach( NULL )

See also:
  attach()

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

Draw the raster data.

Parameters:

  painter | Painter
  xMap | X-Scale Map
  yMap | Y-Scale Map
  canvasRect | Contents rect of the plot canvas

Implements QwtPlotItem.

Reimplemented in QwtPlotSpectrogram.

virtual void QwtLegendItemManager::drawLegendIdentifier | ( | QPainter * | ,
|  | const QRectF & |
| ) |  | const`[inline, virtual, inherited]`

QwtLegendItem can display an icon-identifier followed by a text. The icon helps to identify a plot item on the plot canvas and depends on the type of information, that is displayed.

The default implementation paints nothing.

Reimplemented in QwtPlotCurve, QwtPlotHistogram, QwtPlotIntervalCurve, and QwtPlotMarker.

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

Hide the item.

QwtScaleMap QwtPlotRasterItem::imageMap | ( | Qt::Orientation | orientation,
|  | const QwtScaleMap & | map,
|  | const QRectF & | area,
|  | const QSize & | imageSize,
|  | double | pixelSize
| ) |  | const`[protected, virtual]`

Calculate a scale map for painting to an image.

Parameters:

  orientation | Orientation, Qt::Horizontal means a X axis
  map | Scale map for rendering the plot item
  area | Area to be painted on the image
  imageSize | Image size
  pixelSize | Width/Height of a data pixel

QwtInterval QwtPlotRasterItem::interval | ( | Qt::Axis | axis | ) | const`[virtual]`

Returns:
  Bounding interval for an axis

This method is intended to be reimplemented by derived classes. The default implementation returns an invalid interval.

Parameters:

  axis | X, Y, or Z axis

Reimplemented in QwtPlotSpectrogram.

void QwtPlotRasterItem::invalidateCache | ( |  | ) |

Invalidate the paint cache

See also:
  setCachePolicy()

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 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.

QRectF 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 paint rect of the scale maps, normalized

QRectF QwtPlotRasterItem::pixelHint | ( | const QRectF & | area | ) | const`[virtual]`

Pixel hint.

The geometry of a pixel is used to calculated the resolution and alignment of the rendered image.

Width and height of the hint need to be the horizontal and vertical distances between 2 neighboured points. The center of the hint has to be the position of any point ( it doesn't matter which one ).

Limiting the resolution of the image might significantly improve the performance and heavily reduce the amount of memory when rendering a QImage from the raster data.

The default implementation returns an empty rectangle (QRectF()), meaning, that the image will be rendered in target device ( f.e screen ) resolution.

Parameters:

  area | In most implementations the resolution of the data doesn't depend on the requested area.

Returns:
  Bounding rectangle of a pixel

See also:
  render(), renderImage()

Reimplemented in QwtPlotSpectrogram.

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

Return attached plot.

virtual QImage QwtPlotRasterItem::renderImage | ( | const QwtScaleMap & | xMap,
|  | const QwtScaleMap & | yMap,
|  | const QRectF & | area,
|  | const QSize & | imageSize
| ) |  | const`[protected, pure virtual]`

Render an image.

An implementation of render() might iterate over all pixels of imageRect. Each pixel has to be translated into the corresponding position in scale coordinates using the maps. This position can be used to look up a value in a implementation specific way and to map it into a color.

Parameters:

  xMap | X-Scale Map
  yMap | Y-Scale Map
  area | Requested area for the image in scale coordinates
  imageSize | Requested size of the image

Implemented in QwtPlotSpectrogram.

int QwtPlotItem::rtti | ( |  | ) | const`[virtual, inherited]`

Return rtti for the specific class represented. QwtPlotItem is simply a virtual interface class, and base classes will implement this method with specific rtti values so a user can differentiate them.

The rtti value is useful for environments, where the runtime type information is disabled and it is not possible to do a dynamic_cast<...>.

Returns:
  rtti value

See also:
  RttiValues

Reimplemented in QwtPlotCurve, QwtPlotGrid, QwtPlotHistogram, QwtPlotIntervalCurve, QwtPlotMarker, QwtPlotScaleItem, QwtPlotSpectroCurve, QwtPlotSpectrogram, and QwtPlotSvgItem.

QRectF 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 scale rect of the scale maps, normalized

void QwtPlotRasterItem::setAlpha | ( | int | alpha | ) |

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::setAxes | ( | 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 | ) |

Change the cache policy

The default policy is NoCache

Parameters:

  policy | Cache policy

See also:
  CachePolicy, cachePolicy()

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 QwtPlotRasterItem::setPaintAttribute | ( | PaintAttribute | attribute,
|  | bool | on = `true`
| ) |  |

Specify an attribute how to draw the raster item

Parameters:

  attribute | Paint attribute
  on | On/Off /sa PaintAttribute, testPaintAttribute()

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 QString & | title | ) | `[inherited]`

Set a new title

Parameters:

  title | Title

See also:
  title()

void QwtPlotItem::setTitle | ( | const QwtText & | 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:
  setAxes(), 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:
  setAxes(), 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 QwtPlotItem::testItemAttribute | ( | ItemAttribute | attribute | ) | const`[inherited]`

Test an item attribute

Parameters:

  attribute | Attribute type

Returns:
  true/false

See also:
  setItemAttribute(), ItemAttribute

bool QwtPlotRasterItem::testPaintAttribute | ( | PaintAttribute | attribute | ) | const

Return the current paint attributes.

See also:
  PaintAttribute, setPaintAttribute()

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()

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 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, and QwtPlotMarker.

void QwtPlotItem::updateScaleDiv | ( | const QwtScaleDiv & | xScaleDiv,
|  | const QwtScaleDiv & | yScaleDiv
| ) |  | `[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, QwtPlotScaleItem, QwtPlotSeriesItem< T >, QwtPlotSeriesItem< QwtIntervalSample >, QwtPlotSeriesItem< QPointF >, and QwtPlotSeriesItem< QwtPoint3D >.

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()