looking at this code example from https://www.pythonguis.com/tutorials/bitmap-graphics/#a-bit-of-fun-with-qpainter
Can someone tell me why the background defaults to a black screen which is why I changed the sample code to start with white as the pen color. Am I missing a property I have to set in this python code to set the background of the label? I thought labels were transparent backgrounds by default and therefore a grey background.
Finally how do I save the drawn image as a png or similar?
import sys
from PyQt5 import QtCore, QtGui, QtWidgets, uic
from PyQt5.QtCore import Qt
COLORS = [
# 17 undertones https://lospec.com/palette-list/17undertones
'#000000', '#141923', '#414168', '#3a7fa7', '#35e3e3', '#8fd970', '#5ebb49',
'#458352', '#dcd37b', '#fffee5', '#ffd035', '#cc9245', '#a15c3e', '#a42f3b',
'#f45b7a', '#c24998', '#81588d', '#bcb0c2', '#ffffff',
]
class QPaletteButton(QtWidgets.QPushButton):
def __init__(self, color):
super().__init__()
self.setFixedSize(QtCore.QSize(24,24))
self.color = color
self.setStyleSheet("background-color: %s;" % color)
class Canvas(QtWidgets.QLabel):
def __init__(self):
super().__init__()
pixmap = QtGui.QPixmap(600, 300)
self.setPixmap(pixmap)
self.last_x, self.last_y = None, None
self.pen_color = QtGui.QColor('#ffffff')
def set_pen_color(self, c):
self.pen_color = QtGui.QColor(c)
def mouseMoveEvent(self, e):
if self.last_x is None: # First event.
self.last_x = e.x()
self.last_y = e.y()
return # Ignore the first time.
painter = QtGui.QPainter(self.pixmap())
p = painter.pen()
p.setWidth(2)
p.setColor(self.pen_color)
painter.setPen(p)
painter.drawLine(self.last_x, self.last_y, e.x(), e.y())
painter.end()
self.update()
# Update the origin for next time.
self.last_x = e.x()
self.last_y = e.y()
def mouseReleaseEvent(self, e):
self.last_x = None
self.last_y = None
class MainWindow(QtWidgets.QMainWindow):
def __init__(self):
super().__init__()
self.canvas = Canvas()
w = QtWidgets.QWidget()
l = QtWidgets.QVBoxLayout()
w.setLayout(l)
l.addWidget(self.canvas)
palette = QtWidgets.QHBoxLayout()
self.add_palette_buttons(palette)
l.addLayout(palette)
self.setCentralWidget(w)
def add_palette_buttons(self, layout):
for c in COLORS:
b = QPaletteButton(c)
b.pressed.connect(lambda c=c: self.canvas.set_pen_color(c))
layout.addWidget(b)
app = QtWidgets.QApplication(sys.argv)
window = MainWindow()
window.show()
app.exec_()
