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/*!

    \example opengl/2dpainting

    \title 2D Painting Example

    The 2D Painting example shows how QPainter and QGLWidget can be used

    together to display accelerated 2D graphics on supported hardware.

    \image 2dpainting-example.png

    The QPainter class is used to draw 2D graphics primitives onto

    paint devices provided by QPaintDevice subclasses, such as QWidget

    and QImage.

    Since QGLWidget is a subclass of QWidget, it is possible

    to reimplement its \l{QWidget::paintEvent()}{paintEvent()} and use

    QPainter to draw on the device, just as you would with a QWidget.

    The only difference is that the painting operations will be accelerated

    in hardware if it is supported by your system's OpenGL drivers.

    In this example, we perform the same painting operations on a

    QWidget and a QGLWidget. The QWidget is shown with anti-aliasing

    enabled, and the QGLWidget will also use anti-aliasing if the

    required extensions are supported by your system's OpenGL driver.

    \section1 Overview

    To be able to compare the results of painting onto a QGLWidget subclass

    with native drawing in a QWidget subclass, we want to show both kinds

    of widget side by side. To do this, we derive subclasses of QWidget and

    QGLWidget, using a separate \c Helper class to perform the same painting

    operations for each, and lay them out in a top-level widget, itself

    provided a the \c Window class.

    \section1 Helper Class Definition

    In this example, the painting operations are performed by a helper class.

    We do this because we want the same painting operations to be performed

    for both our QWidget subclass and the QGLWidget subclass.

    The \c Helper class is minimal:

    \snippet examples/opengl/2dpainting/helper.h 0

    Apart from the constructor, it only provides a \c paint() function to paint

    using a painter supplied by one of our widget subclasses.

    \section1 Helper Class Implementation

    The constructor of the class sets up the resources it needs to paint

    content onto a widget:

    \snippet examples/opengl/2dpainting/helper.cpp 0

    The actual painting is performed in the \c paint() function. This takes

    a QPainter that has already been set up to paint onto a paint device

    (either a QWidget or a QGLWidget), a QPaintEvent that provides information

    about the region to be painted, and a measure of the elapsed time (in

    milliseconds) since the paint device was last updated.

    \snippet examples/opengl/2dpainting/helper.cpp 1

    We begin painting by filling in the region contained in the paint event

    before translating the origin of the coordinate system so that the rest

    of the painting operations will be displaced towards the center of the

    paint device.

    We draw a spiral pattern of circles, using the elapsed time specified to

    animate them so that they appear to move outward and around the coordinate

    system's origin:

    \snippet examples/opengl/2dpainting/helper.cpp 2

    Since the coordinate system is rotated many times during

    this process, we \l{QPainter::save()}{save()} the QPainter's state

    beforehand and \l{QPainter::restore()}{restore()} it afterwards.

    \snippet examples/opengl/2dpainting/helper.cpp 3

    We draw some text at the origin to complete the effect.

    \section1 Widget Class Definition

    The \c Widget class provides a basic custom widget that we use to

    display the simple animation painted by the \c Helper class.

    \snippet examples/opengl/2dpainting/widget.h 0

    Apart from the constructor, it only contains a

    \l{QWidget::paintEvent()}{paintEvent()} function, that lets us draw

    customized content, and a slot that is used to animate its contents.

    One member variable keeps track of the \c Helper that the widget uses

    to paint its contents, and the other records the elapsed time since

    it was last updated.

    \section1 Widget Class Implementation

    The constructor only initializes the member variables, storing the

    \c Helper object supplied and calling the base class's constructor,

    and enforces a fixed size for the widget:

    \snippet examples/opengl/2dpainting/widget.cpp 0

    The \c animate() slot is called whenever a timer, which we define later, times

    out:

    \snippet examples/opengl/2dpainting/widget.cpp 1

    Here, we determine the interval that has elapsed since the timer last

    timed out, and we add it to any existing value before repainting the

    widget. Since the animation used in the \c Helper class loops every second,

    we can use the modulo operator to ensure that the \c elapsed variable is

    always less than 1000.

    Since the \c Helper class does all of the actual painting, we only have

    to implement a paint event that sets up a QPainter for the widget and calls

    the helper's \c paint() function:

    \snippet examples/opengl/2dpainting/widget.cpp 2

    \section1 GLWidget Class Definition

    The \c GLWidget class definition is basically the same as the \c Widget

    class except that it is derived from QGLWidget.

    \snippet examples/opengl/2dpainting/glwidget.h 0

    Again, the member variables record the \c Helper used to paint the

    widget and the elapsed time since the previous update.

    \section1 GLWidget Class Implementation

    The constructor differs a little from the \c Widget class's constructor:

    \snippet examples/opengl/2dpainting/glwidget.cpp 0

    As well as initializing the \c elapsed member variable and storing the

    \c Helper object used to paint the widget, the base class's constructor

    is called with the format that specifies the \l QGL::SampleBuffers flag.

    This enables anti-aliasing if it is supported by your system's OpenGL

    driver.

    The \c animate() slot is exactly the same as that provided by the \c Widget

    class:

    \snippet examples/opengl/2dpainting/glwidget.cpp 1

    The \c paintEvent() is almost the same as that found in the \c Widget class:

    \snippet examples/opengl/2dpainting/glwidget.cpp 2

    Since anti-aliasing will be enabled if available, we only need to set up

    a QPainter on the widget and call the helper's \c paint() function to display

    the widget's contents.

    \section1 Window Class Definition

    The \c Window class has a basic, minimal definition:

    \snippet examples/opengl/2dpainting/window.h 0

    It contains a single \c Helper object that will be shared between all

    widgets.

    \section1 Window Class Implementation

    The constructor does all the work, creating a widget of each type and

    inserting them with labels into a layout:

    \snippet examples/opengl/2dpainting/window.cpp 0

    A timer with a 50 millisecond time out is constructed for animation purposes,

    and connected to the \c animate() slots of the \c Widget and \c GLWidget objects.

    Once started, the widgets should be updated at around 20 frames per second.

    \section1 Running the Example

    The example shows the same painting operations performed at the same time

    in a \c Widget and a \c GLWidget. The quality and speed of rendering in the

    \c GLWidget depends on the level of support for multisampling and hardware

    acceleration that your system's OpenGL driver provides. If support for either

    of these is lacking, the driver may fall back on a software renderer that

    may trade quality for speed.

*/