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+<td align="right" valign="center"><img src="logo32.png" align="right" width="64" height="32" border="0"></td></tr></table><h1 align=center>Canvas Control</h1>
+
+
+<p>
+<p> We draw pie segments (or bar chart bars), and any labels, on a canvas.
+The canvas is presented to the user through a canvas view. The
+drawElements() function is called to redraw the canvas when necessary.
+<p> (Extracts from <tt>chartform_canvas.cpp</tt>.)
+<p> <h2> drawElements()
+</h2>
+<a name="1"></a><p>
+
+<pre> void ChartForm::drawElements()
+ {
+ <a href="qcanvasitemlist.html">TQCanvasItemList</a> list = m_canvas-&gt;allItems();
+ for ( TQCanvasItemList::iterator it = list.<a href="qvaluelist.html#begin">begin</a>(); it != list.<a href="qvaluelist.html#end">end</a>(); ++it )
+ delete *it;
+</pre>
+<p> The first thing we do in drawElements() is delete all the existing
+canvas items.
+<p> <pre> // 360 * 16 for pies; TQt works with 16ths of degrees
+ int scaleFactor = m_chartType == PIE ? 5760 :
+ m_chartType == VERTICAL_BAR ? m_canvas-&gt;height() :
+ m_canvas-&gt;width();
+</pre>
+<p> Next we calculate the scale factor which depends on the type of chart
+we're going to draw.
+<p> <pre> double biggest = 0.0;
+ int count = 0;
+ double total = 0.0;
+ static double scales[MAX_ELEMENTS];
+
+ for ( int i = 0; i &lt; MAX_ELEMENTS; ++i ) {
+ if ( m_elements[i].isValid() ) {
+ double value = m_elements[i].value();
+ count++;
+ total += value;
+ if ( value &gt; biggest )
+ biggest = value;
+ scales[i] = m_elements[i].value() * scaleFactor;
+ }
+ }
+
+ if ( count ) {
+ // 2nd loop because of total and biggest
+ for ( int i = 0; i &lt; MAX_ELEMENTS; ++i )
+ if ( m_elements[i].isValid() )
+ if ( m_chartType == PIE )
+ scales[i] = (m_elements[i].value() * scaleFactor) / total;
+ else
+ scales[i] = (m_elements[i].value() * scaleFactor) / biggest;
+</pre>
+<p> We will need to know how many values there are, the biggest value and
+the total value so that we can create pie segments or bars that are
+correctly scaled. We store the scaled values in the <tt>scales</tt> array.
+<p> <pre> switch ( m_chartType ) {
+ case PIE:
+ drawPieChart( scales, total, count );
+ break;
+ case VERTICAL_BAR:
+ drawVerticalBarChart( scales, total, count );
+ break;
+ case HORIZONTAL_BAR:
+ drawHorizontalBarChart( scales, total, count );
+ break;
+ }
+ }
+</pre>
+<p> Now that we have the necessary information we call the relevant
+drawing function, passing in the scaled values, the total and the
+count.
+<p> <pre> m_canvas-&gt;update();
+</pre>
+<p> Finally we update() the canvas to make the changes visible.
+<p> <h3> drawHorizontalBarChart()
+</h3>
+<a name="1-1"></a><p> We'll review just one of the drawing functions, to see how canvas
+items are created and placed on a canvas since this tutorial is about
+TQt rather than good (or bad) algorithms for drawing charts.
+<p> <pre> void ChartForm::drawHorizontalBarChart(
+ const double scales[], double total, int count )
+ {
+</pre>
+<p> To draw a horizontal bar chart we need the array of scaled values, the
+total value (so that we can calculate and draw percentages if
+retquired) and a count of the number of values.
+<p> <pre> double width = m_canvas-&gt;width();
+ double height = m_canvas-&gt;height();
+ int proheight = int(height / count);
+ int y = 0;
+</pre>
+<p> We retrieve the width and height of the canvas and calculate the
+proportional height (<tt>proheight</tt>). We set the initial <tt>y</tt> position
+to 0.
+<p> <pre> <a href="qpen.html">TQPen</a> pen;
+ <a name="x2575"></a> pen.<a href="qpen.html#setStyle">setStyle</a>( NoPen );
+</pre>
+<p> We create a pen that we will use to draw each bar (rectangle); we set
+it to <tt>NoPen</tt> so that no outlines are drawn.
+<p> <pre> for ( int i = 0; i &lt; MAX_ELEMENTS; ++i ) {
+ if ( m_elements[i].isValid() ) {
+ int extent = int(scales[i]);
+</pre>
+<p> We iterate over every element in the element vector, skipping invalid
+elements. The extent of each bar (its length) is simply its scaled
+value.
+<p> <pre> <a href="qcanvasrectangle.html">TQCanvasRectangle</a> *rect = new <a href="qcanvasrectangle.html">TQCanvasRectangle</a>(
+ 0, y, extent, proheight, m_canvas );
+ <a name="x2572"></a> rect-&gt;<a href="qcanvaspolygonalitem.html#setBrush">setBrush</a>( TQBrush( m_elements[i].valueColor(),
+ BrushStyle(m_elements[i].valuePattern()) ) );
+ <a name="x2573"></a> rect-&gt;<a href="qcanvaspolygonalitem.html#setPen">setPen</a>( pen );
+ <a name="x2570"></a> rect-&gt;<a href="qcanvasitem.html#setZ">setZ</a>( 0 );
+ <a name="x2571"></a> rect-&gt;<a href="qcanvasitem.html#show">show</a>();
+</pre>
+<p> We create a new <a href="qcanvasrectangle.html">TQCanvasRectangle</a> for each bar with an x position of 0
+(since this is a horizontal bar chart every bar begins at the left), a
+y value that starts at 0 and grows by the height of each bar as each
+one is drawn, the height of the bar and the canvas that the bar should
+be drawn on. We then set the bar's brush to the color and pattern that
+the user has specified for the element, set the pen to the pen we
+created earlier (i.e. to <tt>NoPen</tt>) and we place the bar at position 0
+in the Z-order. Finally we call show() to draw the bar on the canvas.
+<p> <pre> <a href="qstring.html">TQString</a> label = m_elements[i].label();
+ <a name="x2576"></a> if ( !label.<a href="qstring.html#isEmpty">isEmpty</a>() || m_addValues != NO ) {
+ double proX = m_elements[i].proX( HORIZONTAL_BAR );
+ double proY = m_elements[i].proY( HORIZONTAL_BAR );
+ if ( proX &lt; 0 || proY &lt; 0 ) {
+ proX = 0;
+ proY = y / height;
+ }
+</pre>
+<p> If the user has specified a label for the element or asked for the
+values (or percentages) to be shown, we also draw a canvas text item.
+We created our own CanvasText class (see later) because we want to
+store the corresponding element index (in the element vector) in each
+canvas text item. We extract the proportional x and y values from the
+element. If either is &lt; 0 then they have not been positioned by the
+user so we must calculate positions for them. We set the label's x
+value to 0 (left) and the y value to the top of the bar (so that the
+label's top-left will be at this x, y position).
+<p> <pre> label = valueLabel( label, m_elements[i].value(), total );
+</pre>
+<p> We then call a helper function valueLabel() which returns a string
+containing the label text. (The valueLabel() function adds on the
+value or percentage to the textual label if the user has set the
+appropriate options.)
+<p> <pre> CanvasText *text = new CanvasText( i, label, m_font, m_canvas );
+ <a name="x2574"></a> text-&gt;<a href="qcanvastext.html#setColor">setColor</a>( m_elements[i].labelColor() );
+ <a name="x2568"></a> text-&gt;<a href="qcanvasitem.html#setX">setX</a>( proX * width );
+ <a name="x2569"></a> text-&gt;<a href="qcanvasitem.html#setY">setY</a>( proY * height );
+ text-&gt;<a href="qcanvasitem.html#setZ">setZ</a>( 1 );
+ text-&gt;<a href="qcanvasitem.html#show">show</a>();
+ m_elements[i].setProX( HORIZONTAL_BAR, proX );
+ m_elements[i].setProY( HORIZONTAL_BAR, proY );
+</pre>
+<p> We then create a CanvasText item, passing it the index of this element
+in the element vector, and the label, font and canvas to use. We set
+the text item's text color to the color specified by the user and set
+the item's x and y positions proportional to the canvas's width and
+height. We set the Z-order to 1 so that the text item will always be
+above (in front of) the bar (whose Z-order is 0). We call show() to
+draw the text item on the canvas, and set the element's relative x and
+y positions.
+<p> <pre> }
+ y += proheight;
+</pre>
+<p> After drawing a bar and possibly its label, we increment y by the
+proportional height ready to draw the next element.
+<p> <pre> }
+ }
+ }
+</pre>
+<p> <h2> Subclassing <a href="qcanvastext.html">TQCanvasText</a>
+</h2>
+<a name="2"></a><p> (Extracts from <tt>canvastext.h</tt>.)
+<p>
+
+<pre> class CanvasText : public <a href="qcanvastext.html">TQCanvasText</a>
+ {
+ public:
+ enum { CANVAS_TEXT = 1100 };
+
+ CanvasText( int index, TQCanvas *canvas )
+ : <a href="qcanvastext.html">TQCanvasText</a>( canvas ), m_index( index ) {}
+ CanvasText( int index, const <a href="qstring.html">TQString</a>&amp; text, TQCanvas *canvas )
+ : <a href="qcanvastext.html">TQCanvasText</a>( text, canvas ), m_index( index ) {}
+ CanvasText( int index, const <a href="qstring.html">TQString</a>&amp; text, TQFont font, TQCanvas *canvas )
+ : <a href="qcanvastext.html">TQCanvasText</a>( text, font, canvas ), m_index( index ) {}
+
+ int index() const { return m_index; }
+ void setIndex( int index ) { m_index = index; }
+
+ int rtti() const { return CANVAS_TEXT; }
+
+ private:
+ int m_index;
+ };
+</pre>
+<p> Our CanvasText subclass is a very simple specialisation of
+<a href="qcanvastext.html">TQCanvasText</a>. All we've done is added a single private member <tt>m_index</tt> which holds the element vector index of the element associated
+with this text item, and provided a getter and setter for this value.
+<p> <h2> Subclassing <a href="qcanvasview.html">TQCanvasView</a>
+</h2>
+<a name="3"></a><p> (Extracts from <tt>canvasview.h</tt>.)
+<p>
+
+<pre> class CanvasView : public <a href="qcanvasview.html">TQCanvasView</a>
+ {
+ <a href="metaobjects.html#Q_OBJECT">Q_OBJECT</a>
+ public:
+ CanvasView( <a href="qcanvas.html">TQCanvas</a> *canvas, ElementVector *elements,
+ <a href="qwidget.html">TQWidget</a>* parent = 0, const char* name = "canvas view",
+ WFlags f = 0 )
+ : <a href="qcanvasview.html">TQCanvasView</a>( canvas, parent, name, f ), m_movingItem(0),
+ m_elements( elements ) {}
+
+ protected:
+ void viewportResizeEvent( <a href="qresizeevent.html">TQResizeEvent</a> *e );
+ void contentsMousePressEvent( <a href="qmouseevent.html">TQMouseEvent</a> *e );
+ void contentsMouseMoveEvent( <a href="qmouseevent.html">TQMouseEvent</a> *e );
+ void contentsContextMenuEvent( <a href="qcontextmenuevent.html">TQContextMenuEvent</a> *e );
+
+ private:
+ <a href="qcanvasitem.html">TQCanvasItem</a> *m_movingItem;
+ <a href="qpoint.html">TQPoint</a> m_pos;
+ ElementVector *m_elements;
+ };
+</pre>
+<p> We need to subclass <a href="qcanvasview.html">TQCanvasView</a> so that we can handle:
+<ol type=1>
+<li> Context menu requests.
+<li> Form resizing.
+<li> Users dragging labels to arbitrary positions.
+</ol>
+<p> To support these we store a pointer to the canvas item that is being
+moved and its last position. We also store a pointer to the element
+vector.
+<p> <h3> Supporting Context Menus
+</h3>
+<a name="3-1"></a><p> (Extracts from <tt>canvasview.cpp</tt>.)
+<p>
+
+<pre> <a name="x2584"></a>void CanvasView::<a href="qscrollview.html#contentsContextMenuEvent">contentsContextMenuEvent</a>( <a href="qcontextmenuevent.html">TQContextMenuEvent</a> * )
+ {
+ <a name="x2579"></a> ((ChartForm*)<a href="qobject.html#parent">parent</a>())-&gt;optionsMenu-&gt;exec( TQCursor::<a href="qcursor.html#pos">pos</a>() );
+ }
+</pre>
+<p> When the user invokes a context menu (e.g. by right-clicking on most
+platforms) we cast the canvas view's parent (which is the chart form)
+to the right type and then exec()ute the options menu at the cursor
+position.
+<p> <h3> Handling Resizing
+</h3>
+<a name="3-2"></a><p> <pre> <a name="x2587"></a>void CanvasView::<a href="qscrollview.html#viewportResizeEvent">viewportResizeEvent</a>( <a href="qresizeevent.html">TQResizeEvent</a> *e )
+ {
+ <a name="x2583"></a> <a href="qcanvasview.html#canvas">canvas</a>()-&gt;resize( e-&gt;<a href="qresizeevent.html#size">size</a>().width(), e-&gt;<a href="qresizeevent.html#size">size</a>().height() );
+ ((ChartForm*)<a href="qobject.html#parent">parent</a>())-&gt;drawElements();
+ }
+</pre>
+<p> To resize we simply resize the canvas that the canvas view is
+presenting to the width and height of the form's client area, then
+call drawElements() to redraw the chart. Because drawElements() draws
+everything relative to the canvas's width and height the chart is
+drawn correctly.
+<p> <h3> Dragging Labels into Position
+</h3>
+<a name="3-3"></a><p> When the user wants to drag a label into position they click it, then
+drag and release at the new position.
+<p> <pre> <a name="x2586"></a>void CanvasView::<a href="qscrollview.html#contentsMousePressEvent">contentsMousePressEvent</a>( <a href="qmouseevent.html">TQMouseEvent</a> *e )
+ {
+ <a name="x2580"></a> <a href="qcanvasitemlist.html">TQCanvasItemList</a> list = <a href="qcanvasview.html#canvas">canvas</a>()-&gt;collisions( e-&gt;<a href="qmouseevent.html#pos">pos</a>() );
+ <a name="x2589"></a><a name="x2588"></a> for ( TQCanvasItemList::iterator it = list.<a href="qvaluelist.html#begin">begin</a>(); it != list.<a href="qvaluelist.html#end">end</a>(); ++it )
+ if ( (*it)-&gt;rtti() == CanvasText::CANVAS_TEXT ) {
+ m_movingItem = *it;
+ m_pos = e-&gt;<a href="qmouseevent.html#pos">pos</a>();
+ return;
+ }
+ m_movingItem = 0;
+ }
+</pre>
+<p> When the user clicks the mouse we create a list of canvas items that
+the mouse click "collided" with (if any). We then iterate over this
+list and if we find a <tt>CanvasText</tt> item we set it as the moving item
+and record its position. Otherwise we set there to be no moving item.
+<p> <pre> <a name="x2585"></a>void CanvasView::<a href="qscrollview.html#contentsMouseMoveEvent">contentsMouseMoveEvent</a>( <a href="qmouseevent.html">TQMouseEvent</a> *e )
+ {
+ if ( m_movingItem ) {
+ <a href="qpoint.html">TQPoint</a> offset = e-&gt;<a href="qmouseevent.html#pos">pos</a>() - m_pos;
+ <a name="x2582"></a><a name="x2581"></a> m_movingItem-&gt;moveBy( offset.<a href="qpoint.html#x">x</a>(), offset.<a href="qpoint.html#y">y</a>() );
+ m_pos = e-&gt;<a href="qmouseevent.html#pos">pos</a>();
+ ChartForm *form = (ChartForm*)<a href="qobject.html#parent">parent</a>();
+ form-&gt;setChanged( TRUE );
+ int chartType = form-&gt;chartType();
+ CanvasText *item = (CanvasText*)m_movingItem;
+ int i = item-&gt;index();
+
+ (*m_elements)[i].setProX( chartType, item-&gt;x() / canvas()-&gt;width() );
+ (*m_elements)[i].setProY( chartType, item-&gt;y() / canvas()-&gt;height() );
+
+ <a href="qcanvasview.html#canvas">canvas</a>()-&gt;update();
+ }
+ }
+</pre>
+<p> As the user drags the mouse, move events are generated. If there is a
+moving item we calculate the offset from the last mouse position and
+move the item by this offset amount. We record the new position as the
+last position. Because the chart has now changed we call setChanged()
+so that the user will be prompted to save if they attempt to exit or
+to load an existing chart or to create a new chart. We also update the
+element's proportional x and y positions for the current chart type to
+the current x and y positions proportional to the width and height
+respectively. We know which element to update because when we create
+each canvas text item we pass it the index position of the element it
+corresponds to. We subclassed <a href="qcanvastext.html">TQCanvasText</a> so that we could set and get
+this index value. Finally we call update() to make the canvas redraw.
+<p> <center><table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="2" border="0">
+<tr bgcolor="#f0f0f0">
+<td valign="top">A <a href="qcanvas.html">TQCanvas</a> has no visual representation. To see the contents of a
+canvas you must create a <a href="qcanvasview.html">TQCanvasView</a> to present the canvas. Items only
+appear in the canvas view if they have been show()n, and then, only if
+<a href="qcanvas.html#update">TQCanvas::update</a>() has been called. By default a TQCanvas's background
+color is white, and by default shapes drawn on the canvas, e.g.
+<a href="qcanvasrectangle.html">TQCanvasRectangle</a>, <a href="qcanvasellipse.html">TQCanvasEllipse</a>, etc., have their fill color set to
+white, so setting a non-white brush color is highly recommended!
+</table></center>
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+</p>
+<p>
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