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QCPlot::QCPAbstractPlottable Class Referenceabstract

The abstract base class for all data representing objects in a plot. More...

Inheritance diagram for QCPlot::QCPAbstractPlottable:
QCPlot::QCPLayerable QCPlot::QCPBars QCPlot::QCPCurve QCPlot::QCPGraph QCPlot::QCPStatisticalBox

Signals

void selectionChanged (bool selected)
 This signal is emitted when the selection state of this plottable has changed, either by user interaction or by a direct call to setSelected.
 

Public Member Functions

 QCPAbstractPlottable (QCPAxis *keyAxis, QCPAxis *valueAxis)
 Constructs an abstract plottable which uses keyAxis as its key axis ("x") and valueAxis as its value axis ("y"). More...
 
QString name () const
 
bool antialiasedFill () const
 
bool antialiasedScatters () const
 
bool antialiasedErrorBars () const
 
QPen pen () const
 
QPen selectedPen () const
 
QBrush brush () const
 
QBrush selectedBrush () const
 
QCPAxiskeyAxis () const
 
QCPAxisvalueAxis () const
 
bool selectable () const
 
bool selected () const
 
void setName (const QString &name)
 The name is the textual representation of this plottable as it is displayed in the QCPLegend of the parent QCustomPlot. More...
 
void setAntialiasedFill (bool enabled)
 Sets whether fills of this plottable is drawn antialiased or not. More...
 
void setAntialiasedScatters (bool enabled)
 Sets whether the scatter symbols of this plottable are drawn antialiased or not. More...
 
void setAntialiasedErrorBars (bool enabled)
 Sets whether the error bars of this plottable are drawn antialiased or not. More...
 
void setPen (const QPen &pen)
 The pen is used to draw basic lines that make up the plottable representation in the plot. More...
 
void setSelectedPen (const QPen &pen)
 When the plottable is selected, this pen is used to draw basic lines instead of the normal pen set via setPen. More...
 
void setBrush (const QBrush &brush)
 The brush is used to draw basic fills of the plottable representation in the plot. More...
 
void setSelectedBrush (const QBrush &brush)
 When the plottable is selected, this brush is used to draw fills instead of the normal brush set via setBrush. More...
 
void setKeyAxis (QCPAxis *axis)
 The key axis of a plottable can be set to any axis of a QCustomPlot, as long as it is orthogonal to the plottable's value axis. More...
 
void setValueAxis (QCPAxis *axis)
 The value axis of a plottable can be set to any axis of a QCustomPlot, as long as it is orthogonal to the plottable's key axis. More...
 
void setSelectable (bool selectable)
 Sets whether the user can (de-)select this plottable by clicking on the QCustomPlot surface. More...
 
void setSelected (bool selected)
 Sets whether this plottable is selected or not. More...
 
void rescaleAxes (bool onlyEnlarge=false) const
 Rescales the key and value axes associated with this plottable to contain all displayed data, so the whole plottable is visible. More...
 
void rescaleKeyAxis (bool onlyEnlarge=false) const
 Rescales the key axis of the plottable so the whole plottable is visible. More...
 
void rescaleValueAxis (bool onlyEnlarge=false) const
 Rescales the value axis of the plottable so the whole plottable is visible. More...
 
virtual void clearData ()=0
 Clears all data in the plottable.
 
virtual double selectTest (const QPointF &pos) const =0
 This function is used to decide whether a click hits a plottable or not. More...
 
virtual bool addToLegend ()
 Adds this plottable to the legend of the parent QCustomPlot. More...
 
virtual bool removeFromLegend () const
 Removes the plottable from the legend of the parent QCustomPlot. More...
 
- Public Member Functions inherited from QCPlot::QCPLayerable
 QCPLayerable (QCustomPlot *parentPlot)
 Creates a new QCPLayerable instance. More...
 
bool visible () const
 
QCustomPlotparentPlot () const
 
QCPLayerlayer () const
 
bool antialiased () const
 
void setVisible (bool on)
 Sets the visibility of this layerable object. More...
 
bool setLayer (QCPLayer *layer)
 Sets the layer of this layerable object. More...
 
bool setLayer (const QString &layerName)
 This is an overloaded member function, provided for convenience. It differs from the above function only in what argument(s) it accepts. Sets the layer of this layerable object by name. More...
 
void setAntialiased (bool enabled)
 Sets whether this object will be drawn antialiased or not. More...
 

Protected Types

enum  SignDomain { sdNegative, sdBoth, sdPositive }
 Represents negative and positive sign domain for passing to getKeyRange and getValueRange. More...
 

Protected Member Functions

virtual QRect clipRect () const
 
virtual void draw (QCPPainter *painter)=0
 
virtual void drawLegendIcon (QCPPainter *painter, const QRect &rect) const =0
 
virtual QCPRange getKeyRange (bool &validRange, SignDomain inSignDomain=sdBoth) const =0
 
virtual QCPRange getValueRange (bool &validRange, SignDomain inSignDomain=sdBoth) const =0
 
void coordsToPixels (double key, double value, double &x, double &y) const
 
const QPointF coordsToPixels (double key, double value) const
 
void pixelsToCoords (double x, double y, double &key, double &value) const
 
void pixelsToCoords (const QPointF &pixelPos, double &key, double &value) const
 
QPen mainPen () const
 
QBrush mainBrush () const
 
void applyDefaultAntialiasingHint (QCPPainter *painter) const
 
void applyFillAntialiasingHint (QCPPainter *painter) const
 
void applyScattersAntialiasingHint (QCPPainter *painter) const
 
void applyErrorBarsAntialiasingHint (QCPPainter *painter) const
 
double distSqrToLine (const QPointF &start, const QPointF &end, const QPointF &point) const
 
- Protected Member Functions inherited from QCPlot::QCPLayerable
bool moveToLayer (QCPLayer *layer, bool prepend)
 
void applyAntialiasingHint (QCPPainter *painter, bool localAntialiased, QCP::AntialiasedElement overrideElement) const
 

Protected Attributes

QString mName
 
bool mAntialiasedFill
 
bool mAntialiasedScatters
 
bool mAntialiasedErrorBars
 
QPen mPen
 
QPen mSelectedPen
 
QBrush mBrush
 
QBrush mSelectedBrush
 
QCPAxismKeyAxis
 
QCPAxismValueAxis
 
bool mSelected
 
bool mSelectable
 
- Protected Attributes inherited from QCPlot::QCPLayerable
bool mVisible
 
QCustomPlotmParentPlot
 
QCPLayermLayer
 
bool mAntialiased
 

Friends

class QCustomPlot
 
class QCPPlottableLegendItem
 

Detailed Description

The abstract base class for all data representing objects in a plot.

It defines a very basic interface like name, pen, brush, visibility etc. Since this class is abstract, it can't be instantiated. Use one of the subclasses or create a subclass yourself (see below), to create new ways of displaying data.

All further specifics are in the subclasses, for example:

Creating own plottables

To create an own plottable, you implement a subclass of QCPAbstractPlottable. These are the pure virtual functions, you must implement:

See the documentation of those functions for what they need to do.

For drawing your plot, you can use the coordsToPixels functions to translate a point in plot coordinates to pixel coordinates. This function is quite convenient, because it takes the orientation of the key and value axes into account for you (x and y are swapped when the key axis is vertical and the value axis horizontal). If you are worried about performance (i.e. you need to translate many points in a loop like QCPGraph), you can directly use QCPAxis::coordToPixel. However, you must then take care about the orientation of the axis yourself.

From QCPAbstractPlottable you inherit the following members you may use:

QCustomPlot *mParentPlot A pointer to the parent QCustomPlot instance. This is adopted from the axes that are passed in the constructor.
QString mName The name of the plottable.
bool mVisible Whether the plot is visible or not. When this is false, you shouldn't draw the data in the draw function (draw is always called, no matter what mVisible is).
QPen mPen The generic pen of the plottable. You should use this pen for the most prominent data representing lines in the plottable (e.g QCPGraph uses this pen for its graph lines and scatters)
QPen mSelectedPen The generic pen that should be used when the plottable is selected (hint: mainPen gives you the right pen, depending on selection state).
QBrush mBrush The generic brush of the plottable. You should use this brush for the most prominent fillable structures in the plottable (e.g. QCPGraph uses this brush to control filling under the graph)
QBrush mSelectedBrush The generic brush that should be used when the plottable is selected (hint: mainBrush gives you the right brush, depending on selection state).
QCPAxis *mKeyAxis, *mValueAxis The key and value axes this plottable is attached to. Call their QCPAxis::coordToPixel functions to translate coordinates to pixels in either the key or value dimension.
bool mSelected indicates whether the plottable is selected or not.

Member Enumeration Documentation

Represents negative and positive sign domain for passing to getKeyRange and getValueRange.

Enumerator
sdNegative 

The negative sign domain, i.e. numbers smaller than zero.

sdBoth 

Both sign domains, including zero, i.e. all (rational) numbers.

sdPositive 

The positive sign domain, i.e. numbers greater than zero.

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

QCPlot::QCPAbstractPlottable::QCPAbstractPlottable ( QCPAxis keyAxis,
QCPAxis valueAxis 
)

Constructs an abstract plottable which uses keyAxis as its key axis ("x") and valueAxis as its value axis ("y").

keyAxis and valueAxis must reside in the same QCustomPlot instance and not have the same orientation. If either of these restrictions is violated, a corresponding message is printed to the debug output (qDebug), the construction is not aborted, though.

Since QCPAbstractPlottable is an abstract class that defines the basic interface to plottables (i.e. any form of data representation inside a plot, like graphs, curves etc.), it can't be directly instantiated.

You probably want one of the subclasses like QCPGraph and QCPCurve instead.

See Also
setKeyAxis, setValueAxis

Member Function Documentation

bool QCPlot::QCPAbstractPlottable::addToLegend ( )
virtual

Adds this plottable to the legend of the parent QCustomPlot.

Normally, a QCPPlottableLegendItem is created and inserted into the legend. If the plottable needs a more specialized representation in the plot, this function will take this into account and instead create the specialized subclass of QCPAbstractLegendItem.

Returns true on success, i.e. when a legend item associated with this plottable isn't already in the legend.

See Also
removeFromLegend, QCPLegend::addItem
bool QCPlot::QCPAbstractPlottable::removeFromLegend ( ) const
virtual

Removes the plottable from the legend of the parent QCustomPlot.

This means the QCPAbstractLegendItem (usually a QCPPlottableLegendItem) that is associated with this plottable is removed.

Returns true on success, i.e. if a legend item associated with this plottable was found and removed from the legend.

See Also
addToLegend, QCPLegend::removeItem
void QCPlot::QCPAbstractPlottable::rescaleAxes ( bool  onlyEnlarge = false) const

Rescales the key and value axes associated with this plottable to contain all displayed data, so the whole plottable is visible.

If the scaling of an axis is logarithmic, rescaleAxes will make sure not to rescale to an illegal range i.e. a range containing different signs and/or zero. Instead it will stay in the current sign domain and ignore all parts of the plottable that lie outside of that domain.

onlyEnlarge makes sure the ranges are only expanded, never reduced. So it's possible to show multiple plottables in their entirety by multiple calls to rescaleAxes where the first call has onlyEnlarge set to false (the default), and all subsequent set to true.

void QCPlot::QCPAbstractPlottable::rescaleKeyAxis ( bool  onlyEnlarge = false) const

Rescales the key axis of the plottable so the whole plottable is visible.

See rescaleAxes for detailed behaviour.

void QCPlot::QCPAbstractPlottable::rescaleValueAxis ( bool  onlyEnlarge = false) const

Rescales the value axis of the plottable so the whole plottable is visible.

See rescaleAxes for detailed behaviour.

double QCPlot::QCPAbstractPlottable::selectTest ( const QPointF &  pos) const
pure virtual

This function is used to decide whether a click hits a plottable or not.

pos is a point in pixel coordinates on the QCustomPlot surface. This function returns the shortest pixel distance of this point to the plottable (e.g. to the scatters/lines of a graph). If the plottable is either invisible, contains no data or the distance couldn't be determined, -1.0 is returned. setSelectable has no influence on the return value of this function.

If the plottable is represented not by single lines but by an area like QCPBars or QCPStatisticalBox, a click inside the area returns a constant value greater zero (typically 99% of the selectionTolerance of the parent QCustomPlot). If the click lies outside the area, this function returns -1.0.

Providing a constant value for area objects allows selecting line objects even when they are obscured by such area objects, by clicking close to the lines (i.e. closer than 0.99*selectionTolerance).

The actual setting of the selection state is not done by this function. This is handled by the parent QCustomPlot when the mouseReleaseEvent occurs.

See Also
setSelected, QCustomPlot::setInteractions

Implemented in QCPlot::QCPStatisticalBox, QCPlot::QCPBars, QCPlot::QCPCurve, and QCPlot::QCPGraph.

void QCPlot::QCPAbstractPlottable::setAntialiasedErrorBars ( bool  enabled)

Sets whether the error bars of this plottable are drawn antialiased or not.

Note that this setting may be overridden by QCustomPlot::setAntialiasedElements and QCustomPlot::setNotAntialiasedElements.

void QCPlot::QCPAbstractPlottable::setAntialiasedFill ( bool  enabled)

Sets whether fills of this plottable is drawn antialiased or not.

Note that this setting may be overridden by QCustomPlot::setAntialiasedElements and QCustomPlot::setNotAntialiasedElements.

void QCPlot::QCPAbstractPlottable::setAntialiasedScatters ( bool  enabled)

Sets whether the scatter symbols of this plottable are drawn antialiased or not.

Note that this setting may be overridden by QCustomPlot::setAntialiasedElements and QCustomPlot::setNotAntialiasedElements.

void QCPlot::QCPAbstractPlottable::setBrush ( const QBrush &  brush)

The brush is used to draw basic fills of the plottable representation in the plot.

The Fill can be a color, gradient or texture, see the usage of QBrush.

For example, the QCPGraph subclass draws the fill under the graph with this brush, when it's not set to Qt::NoBrush.

See Also
setPen
void QCPlot::QCPAbstractPlottable::setKeyAxis ( QCPAxis axis)

The key axis of a plottable can be set to any axis of a QCustomPlot, as long as it is orthogonal to the plottable's value axis.

This function performs no checks to make sure this is the case. The typical mathematical choice is to use the x-axis (QCustomPlot::xAxis) as key axis and the y-axis (QCustomPlot::yAxis) as value axis.

Normally, the key and value axes are set in the constructor of the plottable (or QCustomPlot::addGraph when working with QCPGraphs through the dedicated graph interface).

See Also
setValueAxis
void QCPlot::QCPAbstractPlottable::setName ( const QString &  name)

The name is the textual representation of this plottable as it is displayed in the QCPLegend of the parent QCustomPlot.

It may contain any utf-8 characters, including newlines.

void QCPlot::QCPAbstractPlottable::setPen ( const QPen &  pen)

The pen is used to draw basic lines that make up the plottable representation in the plot.

For example, the QCPGraph subclass draws its graph lines and scatter points with this pen.

See Also
setBrush
void QCPlot::QCPAbstractPlottable::setSelectable ( bool  selectable)

Sets whether the user can (de-)select this plottable by clicking on the QCustomPlot surface.

(When QCustomPlot::setInteractions contains iSelectPlottables.)

However, even when selectable was set to false, it is possible to set the selection manually, by calling setSelected directly.

See Also
setSelected
void QCPlot::QCPAbstractPlottable::setSelected ( bool  selected)

Sets whether this plottable is selected or not.

When selected, it uses a different pen and brush to draw its lines and fills, see setSelectedPen and setSelectedBrush.

The entire selection mechanism for plottables is handled automatically when QCustomPlot::setInteractions contains iSelectPlottables. You only need to call this function when you wish to change the selection state manually.

This function can change the selection state even when setSelectable was set to false.

emits the selectionChanged signal when selected is different from the previous selection state.

See Also
selectTest
void QCPlot::QCPAbstractPlottable::setSelectedBrush ( const QBrush &  brush)

When the plottable is selected, this brush is used to draw fills instead of the normal brush set via setBrush.

See Also
setSelected, setSelectable, setSelectedPen, selectTest
void QCPlot::QCPAbstractPlottable::setSelectedPen ( const QPen &  pen)

When the plottable is selected, this pen is used to draw basic lines instead of the normal pen set via setPen.

See Also
setSelected, setSelectable, setSelectedBrush, selectTest
void QCPlot::QCPAbstractPlottable::setValueAxis ( QCPAxis axis)

The value axis of a plottable can be set to any axis of a QCustomPlot, as long as it is orthogonal to the plottable's key axis.

This function performs no checks to make sure this is the case. The typical mathematical choice is to use the x-axis (QCustomPlot::xAxis) as key axis and the y-axis (QCustomPlot::yAxis) as value axis.

Normally, the key and value axes are set in the constructor of the plottable (or QCustomPlot::addGraph when working with QCPGraphs through the dedicated graph interface).

See Also
setKeyAxis

The documentation for this class was generated from the following files: