QTikzPicture

Easily create PGF/TikZ pictures with Qt/C++.

QTikzPicture provides simple facilities to draw TikZ pictures with Qt. It is not possible to use QTikzPicture together with QPainter, as QTikzPicture is not a QPaintDevice.

Instead, the philosophy of QTikzPicture is to give the developer full control over (i) what should be exported and (ii) how the drawing should be performed.

Using QTikzPicture works on a QTextStream. Therefore, you typically follow these steps:

// 1. create a QTikzPicture
QTikzPicture tikzPicture;

// 2. assign a output text stream
QFile file("picture.tikz");
if (!file.open(QIODevice::WriteOnly | QIODevice::Text))
    return;
QTextStream textStream(&file);

tikzPicture.setStream(&textStream);

// 3. begin tikzpicture
tikzPicture.begin();

// 4. call paint methods
tikzPicture.line(QPointF(0, 0), QPointF(1, 1), "thick, dashed");

QPainterPath path;
path.moveTo(0, 0);
path.lineTo(0, 1);
path.lineTo(1, 2);
path.lineTo(2, 1);
path.lineTo(2, 0);
path.closeSubpath();

tikzPicture.path(path, "fill=green!50, draw=green!50!black");

// 5. end tikzpicture
tikzPicture.end();