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    42 /*!
       
    43     \example painting/svggenerator
       
    44     \title SVG Generator Example
       
    45 
       
    46     The SVG Generator example shows how to add SVG file export to applications.
       
    47 
       
    48     \image svggenerator-example.png
       
    49 
       
    50     Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is an XML-based language for describing
       
    51     two-dimensional vector graphics. Qt provides classes for rendering and
       
    52     generating SVG drawings. This example allows the user to create a simple
       
    53     picture and save it to an SVG file.
       
    54 
       
    55     The example consists of two classes: \c Window and \c DisplayWidget.
       
    56 
       
    57     The \c Window class contains the application logic and constructs the user
       
    58     interface from a Qt Designer UI file as described in the
       
    59     \l{Using a Designer UI File in Your Application#The Multiple Inheritance Approach}{Qt Designer manual}.
       
    60     It also contains the code to write an SVG file.
       
    61 
       
    62     The \c DisplayWidget class performs all the work of painting a picture on
       
    63     screen. Since we want the SVG to resemble this picture as closely as
       
    64     possible, we make this code available to the \c Window class so that it can
       
    65     be used to generate SVG files.
       
    66 
       
    67     \section1 The DisplayWidget Class
       
    68 
       
    69     The \c DisplayWidget class displays a drawing consisting of a selection of
       
    70     elements chosen by the user. These are defined using \c Shape and
       
    71     \c Background enums that are included within the class definition:
       
    72 
       
    73     \snippet examples/painting/svggenerator/displaywidget.h DisplayWidget class definition
       
    74 
       
    75     Much of this class is used to configure the appearance of the drawing. The
       
    76     \c paintEvent() and \c paint() functions are most relevant to the purpose
       
    77     of this example, so we will describe these here and leave the reader to
       
    78     look at the source code for the example to see how shapes and colors are
       
    79     handled.
       
    80 
       
    81     We reimplement the QWidget::paintEvent() function to display the drawing
       
    82     on screen:
       
    83 
       
    84     \snippet examples/painting/svggenerator/displaywidget.cpp paint event
       
    85 
       
    86     Here, we only construct a QPainter object, begin painting on the device
       
    87     and set a render hint for improved output quality before calling the
       
    88     \c paint() function to perform the painting itself. When this returns,
       
    89     we close the painter and return.
       
    90 
       
    91     The \c paint() function is designed to be used for different painting
       
    92     tasks. In this example, we use it to draw on a \c DisplayWidget instance
       
    93     and on a QSvgGenerator object. We show how the painting is performed to
       
    94     demonstrate that there is nothing device-specific about the process:
       
    95 
       
    96     \snippet examples/painting/svggenerator/displaywidget.cpp paint function
       
    97 
       
    98     \section1 The Window Class
       
    99 
       
   100     The \c Window class represents the example's window, containing the user
       
   101     interface, which has been created using Qt Designer:
       
   102 
       
   103     \snippet examples/painting/svggenerator/window.h Window class definition
       
   104 
       
   105     As with the \c DisplayWidget class, we concentrate on the parts of the code
       
   106     which are concerned with painting and SVG generation. In the \c Window
       
   107     class, the \c saveSvg() function is called whenever the \gui{Save As...}
       
   108     button is clicked; this connection was defined in the \c{window.ui} file
       
   109     using Qt Designer.
       
   110 
       
   111     The start of the \c saveSvg() function performs the task of showing a file
       
   112     dialog so that the user can specify a SVG file to save the drawing to.
       
   113     
       
   114     \snippet examples/painting/svggenerator/window.cpp save SVG
       
   115 
       
   116     In the rest of the function, we set up the generator and configure it to
       
   117     generate output with the appropriate dimensions and write to the
       
   118     user-specified file. We paint on the QSvgGenerator object in the same way
       
   119     that we paint on a widget, calling the \c DisplayWidget::paint() function
       
   120     so that we use exactly the same code that we used to display the drawing.
       
   121 
       
   122     The generation process itself begins with the call to the painter's
       
   123     \l{QPainter::}{begin()} function and ends with call to its
       
   124     \l{QPainter::}{end()} function. The QSvgGenerator paint device relies on
       
   125     the explicit use of these functions to ensure that output is written to
       
   126     the file.
       
   127 
       
   128     \section1 Further Reading
       
   129 
       
   130     The \l{SVG Viewer Example} shows how to display SVG drawings in an
       
   131     application, and can be used to show the contents of SVG files created
       
   132     by this example.
       
   133 
       
   134     See the QtSvg module documentation for more information about SVG and Qt's
       
   135     SVG classes.
       
   136 */