Overriding QPaintEvents in PyQt
I'm trying to create a TextEdit widget that will have a delimiter line. As a start, I've created a MyTextEdit
class (as a subclass of a QTextEdit
) and overridden its paintEvent()
method:
import sys
from PyQt4.QtGui import QApplication, QTextEdit, QPainter
class MyTextEdit(QTextEdit):
"""A TextEdit widget derived from QTextEdit and implementing its
own paintEvent"""
def paintEvent(self, event):
painter = QPainter(self)
painter.drawLine(0, 10, 10, 10)
QTextEdit.paintEvent(self, event)
app = QApplication(sys.argv)
textEdit = MyTextEdit()
textEdit.show()
sys.exit(app.exec_())
Trying to execute this code, I get lots of the following errors:
QPainter::begin: Widget painting can only begin as a result of a paintEvent
QPainter::begin: Widget painting can only begin as a result of a paintEvent
...
If a widget has a viewport, you have to pass that to the QPainter
constructor:
painter = QPainter(self.viewport())