Creating a rectangular icon

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On March 3, 2010, Antony Loebs wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 5:58 PM, Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org> wrote:
> > On March 3, 2010, Antony Loebs wrote:
> > > Hmm...I added the following
> > > 
> > > def paintEvent(self, event):
> > >     size = self.geometry()
> > >     height = size.height()
> > >     self.resize(height * 4, height)
> > > 
> > > But that doesn't work. Do I need to completely re-implement drawing the
> > > pixmap in paintEvent?
> > 
> > yes; which isn't hard (it's one call). and you don't want to be resizing
> > yourself in the paintEvent (that has the potential for endless looping
> > due to
> > resize -> repaint -> resize..)
> > 
> > Ok, I'll admit that I'm over my head and prepare myself for Captain
> 
> Obvious. What's the one call for re-drawing the pixmap which is in a label?

QPainter p(this);
.. calculate where the pixmap should be painted, resize pixmap if needed ..
p.drawPixmap(topLeftStart, pixmap);

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